FROM EQUAL SCHOOLS TO INTEGRATION TO DESEGREGATION AND BACK AGAIN | 2005-09-05
In 1950 James F. Byrnes, former Senator, Supreme Court justice, Assistant to the President, and Secretary of State, was elected governor of South Carolina. Her ran for governor entirely because he was worried about integration.
One of Byrnes's first acts as governor was to push through our first sales tax, three cents on the dollar. It was to be dedicated entirely to equalizing the black schools.
Stokeley Carmichel was perfectly correct when he founded the Black Panthers. He said,
"The only people who get results are the ones who have POWER."
The push for integration gave blacks POWER. In North Carolina in 1950, the average pay for black teachers was higher than it was for white teachers.
The South was desperate, and wanted to put money into it.
But blacks had turned all their power over to the white liberals and rich blacks. They wanted integration. They wanted country clubs and white women for blacks who could afford them. Almost every issue of Jet Magazine, the magazine for black people, had a mixed couple on the cover in the 1950s.
They were not out for equal schools. They were out for REVENGE on whites.
In the 1960s integration became "desegregation." The idea of doing away with whites as a goal was no longer mentioned. They were fighting age-old discrimination. They were fighting Hitler.
Then came busing. Whites were running away from desegregation, so they had to be chased down.
Busing was wildly unpopular, even among blacks. So the line changed again.
Liberals began to say that the only reason they pushed busing was as a threat. The threat of busing would force white people to make "inner city," i.e., black, schools equal.
No one but Bob has a memory, so I realized this was where we started. It was what Byrnes was doing in 1951. It was what North Carolina had already done and was still doing in 1950.
Stokeley Carmichel died in Africa, trying to help blacks. Black "leaders" here live in the suburbs and attack Confederate flags.
We just saw this mentality in action in New Orleans. The overwhelming motive of black action today is not the welfare of their children. It is a hatred for whites, a hatred which liberals and respectable conservatives share.
We told you so.
In 1950.