All posts tagged "Segregation"

A white separatist group known as "Return to the Land" is looking to expand its members-only community promoting "European ancestry" and "traditional values."

Founder Eric Orwoll told Nexstar's KOLR that he's hoping to franchise his 160-acre Arkansas-based community that excludes minorities and Jewish people, first into Missouri, then to all 50 states.

Orwoll said the initial draw to northern Arkansas was its “affordable land, natural beauty, abundant water resources and a conservative, predominantly white population.”...

One of the markers of conservatism in our modern democracy is a routine willingness to say one thing privately and another publicly.  The reason for this is that our national consensus has turned towards justice, which causes defenders of the old order into a bad situation where they either say what they mean and sound like monsters, or they try to reframe their authoritarian views in liberal terms to confuse the issue.   Historically, this has mostly been a stalling tactic, if in results if not in intention.  Slave owners bought a little more time owning slaves by claiming slavery was good for slaves, because they weren't smart enough for freedom.  (This argument never actually went away entirely, as was demonstrated by Michele Bachmann signing a pledge that was based on the assumption that African-Americans needed to be enslaved to make them act right, by social conservative standards.)  In the early days of segregation, what was privately expressed as an explicit desire to keep black people as second class citizens was cleaned up and publicly presented as "separate but equal".  When that stopped working, private support for segregation as segregation was cleaned up and presented to the public as "states' rights" or "private property rights".  After desegregation, private anger at black people for demanding equality was cleaned up and presented as "law and order" in public.  You know this history.  

Tea party groups have succeeded in reversing nationally praised school integration policies in Raleigh, North Carolina, decrying the longstanding system as one of social engineering.

As the Republican Party positions itself for a major comeback after its electoral losses in 2006 and 2008, it is looking for ways to undercut Barack Obama's appeal as the nation's first black president without opening itself to accusations of racism.

Forty years after a Mississippi school district was ordered to desegregate its schools, a federal judge has finally enforced the order.