This is the city swimming pool where I swam as a small child in the Deep South. It was demolished and filled in because a Federal judge ordered desegregation of the city pools, and “we ain’t gonna have no mixin’ of the races in this here city.” They literally destroyed it — and virtually everything else that might make their city a nice place to live — in order to preserve the right to hate people with a different skin color.
That is what hate does. It destroys. It never builds. Never.
Today things are better for black people in that city. They even have a black female mayor now. But that’s only because so many of the bigots left — the city is only 45% white now. But the bigots basically blew up the city behind them as they left, destroying everything that they could out of hate and spite. Because that’s what hate does. It destroys. That’s all it does. Ever. Leaving those who are the targets of their hate to try to put together a city from the rubble that the bigots left behind — and the bigots blame them for that rubble, despite the fact that it was the bigots themselves who blew up the city behind them as they fled.
– Badtux the Reminiscing Penguin
Here’s another to the best I can remember. I believe it was after the Depression in Lafayette,CO. I read it and it may have even been earlier.
A community effort built a swimming pool. Before it opened the Mexicans found out they were not going to be allowed to use it. A stink arose and it was never used and was filled in only to be discovered during the construction of a huge rec center that of course has a swimming pool.
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Hate does build things, but not good things. Hate built the death camps and South Africa under apartheid.
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The thing that the bigots always conveniently forget is that they’d have lasted longer with Jim Crow if they had lived up to the second part of “separate but equal”. But they weren’t going to pay to have decent schools for “those people,” either.
That’s why it pretty much all fell apart in the school cases: Not because segregation was evil, but because it was not equal.
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Destroying on the way out of town…. It almost sounds – dare I say it? – Biblical.
Great minds say Love always wins. Maybe so. As I’ve witnessed Hate does not stop, even unto their own destruction. This is a good thing to know but I’ve no clue of how to use the knowledge.
Long time reader. Not sure if I’ve commented before. Thanks for being a Penguin in a world of primates.
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Now, Tux…it’s clear in this story, the REAL reason they filled it was declining use (snark off)…
Interesting link: http://npaper-wehaa.com/forum-news/2013/05/01/?g=print#?article=1896285
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Stupid small screens…name wrong
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Declining use… by white people. I can certainly testify from personal experience that there was no shortage of black kids who wanted to use that pool at the time, my dad’s shop was just down the street from the pool and I played with most of the black kids in the neighborhood. But they didn’t count, I guess.
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Funny, same reason the southern pools in Fort Worth were closed first…declining white attendance…even reopening some in the 1990’s they were in “better” neighborhoods.
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Badtux.
U would find Dave Carlin on Facebook interesting. He is entirely convinced of his own brilliance. He is a prof in Rhode Island. He see Leftists everywhere ruining the country but he can’t find racism anywhere. The reason of course is because racism was ended by 1970 due to the efforts of people like MLK. He firmly believes his own nonsense and has legions of followers.
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