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Post by nebsen on Apr 13, 2019 19:20:35 GMT -5
If you are interested in the" Reconstruction Period"..than this is the documentary by Dr. Henry Gates is spot On !!~.esp for the times we live in, very instructive for NOW ! I saw the part 1 last Tues..now this Tues on PBS part 2 is presented...I've always had a deep interest in this period... in Black American history... very fascinating...do i hear a second Reconstruction Calling
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Post by asante on Apr 14, 2019 12:16:06 GMT -5
Dr. Gates according to the Great Dr. John Henrick Clarke is, and has always been a "professional white azz kisser". Gates should have been thrown away after that Nile Valley - Nubia episode of his Africa series when he alluded to the racial identity of ancient Kemet as being ambiguous. |
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Post by zarahan on Apr 15, 2019 18:55:18 GMT -5
If you are interested in the" Reconstruction Period"..than this is the documentary by Dr. Henry Gates is spot On !!~.esp for the times we live in, very instructive for NOW ! I saw the part 1 last Tues..now this Tues on PBS part 2 is presented...I've always had a deep interest in this period... in Black American history... very fascinating...do i hear a second Reconstruction Calling Second Reconstruction, I dunno.. Some historians call the Civil Rights Era the second, in that it took care of a few items of unfinished business. Along what lines are you thinking? On into the Trump era? ? What are the lessons for the present era? |
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Post by nebsen on Apr 15, 2019 19:04:59 GMT -5
If you are interested in the" Reconstruction Period"..than this is the documentary by Dr. Henry Gates is spot On !!~.esp for the times we live in, very instructive for NOW ! I saw the part 1 last Tues..now this Tues on PBS part 2 is presented...I've always had a deep interest in this period... in Black American history... very fascinating...do i hear a second Reconstruction Calling Second Reconstruction, I dunno.. Some historians call the Civil Rights Era the second, in that it took care of a few items of unfinished business. Along what lines are you thinking? On into the Trump era? ? What are the lessons for the present era? Well, I see the civil rights as half measure be it that you had Jim Crow to slow things down almost to a stop..The Reconstruction period was a" Transformation" of a different kind thus the extreme "white backlash"..it would be great if you can check part 2 Tue: so we can compare notes .... |
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Post by zarahan on Apr 17, 2019 21:40:04 GMT -5
Yes you are indeed right In some aspects it could be called a half-measure like the Housing Act of 1968 after King's
assassination. It sounded good on paper, but had little strong enforcement. People had to go to court to
fight case after case in state after state, city after city. It was only 20 years later that they put
some real enforcement teeth into it. You have been around some, compared to my generation that came into being
more or less after 1964. WHat kind of Jim Crowism did you see back in them days that had a vivid impression?
Anyone else?
Maybe I'll see part 2. But yeap I would agree too it was a transformative period that could have gone on
in a positive way. But the backlash crushed what could have been a different more positive America.
I remember reading of C van woodward, a guy cited by ML KIng who points out that even after the main
Reconstruction period passed, in those initial years, segregation was not the rigid monster it became.
There was an alternative future. Jim Crowism was not necessary. Whites had already pretty much regained
all their land and voting rights and they got relatively lenient treatment by the North, just like the
white Boers got lenient treatment by the British after they were defeated in the Boer War. Alas, they too
put in place a vicious system of oppression as we know-apartheid.
But then again like you indicate maybe that was the point of Jim Crow. To slow down movement towards
that alternative, more positive future.
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