The above is Hinderaker’s concluding statement, verbatim — in a fatuous piece about how put upon whyte ppl have become, in the second decade of the the 21st Century.
The quote is self-effacing, to be certain. Thinking back over the last two years, I don’t recall EVER seeing hundreds and hundreds of whyte ppl being lynched month after month, night after night… as was not uncommon before the 1950s, in the rural South. I do not recall Black people ENSLAVING whyte ppl, for five centuries minimum.
I do recall, though, that on Christmas Day 1951, in Mims, Florida, Harry Tyson Moore, a civil rights leader, and his wife were the victims of Ku Klux Klan terror, when a bomb exploded in their home, assassinating them both. On Christmas Day — their silver wedding anniversary.
I do recall that there were NO black students in the public land grant universities at Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas and Kentucky. Not one. I do recall that as late as 1955, the coach Adolph Rupp, at University of Kentucky, refused to play his all-white squads against any integrated opponent basketball team (and consider the 1963 national championship Chicago’s Loyola won against Mississippi State). I recall endless lines of 1950s lunch counters — where ordering a milkshake… was to take your very life in your hands… depending on just how bad the whytes nearby… felt like being.
I also recall… a million other mostly-heinous things. But I genuinely cannot recall, even at any historically-Black college (since people of color were DENIED seats at the land grant universities in the same state!), a single campus where no whyte ppl were/are allowed to enroll. Ever. Not once.
But being from a wealthy Dakotan all-whyte town, and family, John has absolutely no frame of reference as to what 1954 was like, in Black America. None.
He should just. STFU.
Not surprisingly, he also feels the government of Belgium has nothing to apologize for, in the Free State of Congo era, either — despite the shockingly graphic photographic evidence (at right).
DAMNATION.
