Cry. Harder. |
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And this happened at multiple schools across the south. This wasn’t that long ago; many of these people are still alive and I don’t think most have examined why they felt the way they did back then, nor have they considered how that informs who they are today. The past, in this case, is so close that you could reach out and touch it. |
Read. The. Article. |
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In 2022, US public schools are just as segregated as they were before Brown vs. Board of Education.
Whatever progress there was has been reversed. Schemes like Busing accomplished nothing. And you geniuses are worried about Jerry Jones in high school? |
Things were much better in the 1980s, but then a 1991 U.S. Supreme Court ruling ended court-ordered desegregation. |
The fact remains that the schools are now as segregated as they ever were. And these fools are outraged about Jerry Jones. |
People don't like to see racists get rewarded. |
The real world doesn’t care. The guys a Billionaire and the average Cowboy fan doesn’t care either. |
That fact remains because efforts to further desegregate schools were halted. And yeah, people are allowed to be upset when one of the guys who ran up the stairs to block the door turns into one of America’s most prominent businessmen. Haven’t you ever looked at those photographs and wondered what those people were like now? |
If people did not care, this thread would not exist. Some fans care, some do not. |
The NFL is the opiate of the masses. The owners are among the biggest welfare queens out there. They get the public to pay for their stadiums. And why shouldn't they? See anyone in the streets demonstrating against them? |
Why do people continue those narrative? Sure, neighborhoods tend to be segregated, for various historically racist reasons. My black kid is at a school with 30 black, 40% white, and 30% other students. |
100 years ago, Chicago was less segregated than it is now. |
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Those pictures and the article do not describe 'Jerry Jones tried to stop integration at his Arkansas high school.'
The door can be seen in the picture. Jones is not between the kids and the door. There are at least two photographers near the kids who are more in the way, along with some old guys, and a guy who looks like Kiefer Sutherland is the 2nd in line to block them. Washington Post describes him as scurrying up the stairs to get in their way, but he didn't get in their way. The only way his actions could have led to stopping integration is if his not being there would have caused many others to not be there and opened up a path for the kids to enter the school. |
All that matters whether advertisers start caring. If Ford and InBev tell the NFL that it's a problem, Jones will be gone tomorrow. If they continue to happily air ads during Cowboys games, nothing will happen |