Comments on: Apartheid Yardbirds and The Saints http://nukegingrich.com/2006/10/15/apartheid-yardbirds-and-the-saints/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:33:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Imagination and inspiration. What’s next? « nuke gingrich http://nukegingrich.com/2006/10/15/apartheid-yardbirds-and-the-saints/#comment-78140 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:57:58 +0000 http://nukegingrich.wordpress.com/2006/10/15/apartheid-yardbirds-and-the-saints/#comment-78140 [...] Apartheid Yardbird and the Saints [...]

]]> By: Ex-deputy arrested in 1964 race case « Nuke’s news & views http://nukegingrich.com/2006/10/15/apartheid-yardbirds-and-the-saints/#comment-8686 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:23:53 +0000 http://nukegingrich.wordpress.com/2006/10/15/apartheid-yardbirds-and-the-saints/#comment-8686 [...] Now Public — nuke @ 6:22 pm I grew up in the river city of Natchez, Mississippi. I remember these times, and these crimes and others like them. It has taken 40 years for the wheels of justice to finally [...]

]]> By: vimto http://nukegingrich.com/2006/10/15/apartheid-yardbirds-and-the-saints/#comment-475 Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:09:00 +0000 http://nukegingrich.wordpress.com/2006/10/15/apartheid-yardbirds-and-the-saints/#comment-475 Nuke a lovely article well written with a good perspective on the issues. I wish I had more time now to write of the many thoughts it has raised. I also agree totally with your comment,

“I don’t give a rat’s azz if muslims want to assimilate into this country or not. But to want to claim a separate society on the one hand, and then claim discrimination and intolerence from society at large truly sticks in my craw. They cannot have it both ways.”

I have known many good Muslims, really nice guys who want to live in the UK and who contribute, retain their religion but wear it lightly. The problem is Islam. When it segregates the internal dynamics are re-inforced. Incidentally Histi Ali has said that making fun of Islam is an important aspect of getting it to reform, which is why I lampoon the so often.

]]> By: SwampWoman http://nukegingrich.com/2006/10/15/apartheid-yardbirds-and-the-saints/#comment-437 Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:37:03 +0000 http://nukegingrich.wordpress.com/2006/10/15/apartheid-yardbirds-and-the-saints/#comment-437 Exactly. If you self-segregate, you cannot complain about being segregated. It’s like refusing to leave your side of town and then complaining about the dating pool of singles available.

]]> By: nuke http://nukegingrich.com/2006/10/15/apartheid-yardbirds-and-the-saints/#comment-432 Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:01:00 +0000 http://nukegingrich.wordpress.com/2006/10/15/apartheid-yardbirds-and-the-saints/#comment-432 When I was talking from my friend at Alcorn, we were recalling that Christmas of 1968, and it was interesting to hear him say that the black kids were just as nervous as the white kids about the changes.

When I think about the forced changes going on in Iraq, I have some of those same rememberences, knowing that it took 100 years in the US from the end of the Civil War to the late 60′s to end government sanctioned segregation. It’s going to take them a long time to reconcile their tribal differences. And when I read about the Muslims in Western Europe, trying to re-create the failed societies that they came from, it just seems like a giant step backwards.

I don’t give a rat’s azz if muslims want to assimilate into this country or not. But to want to claim a separate society on the one hand, and then claim discrimination and intolerence from society at large truly sticks in my craw. They cannot have it both ways.

]]> By: SwampWoman http://nukegingrich.com/2006/10/15/apartheid-yardbirds-and-the-saints/#comment-431 Mon, 16 Oct 2006 01:38:21 +0000 http://nukegingrich.wordpress.com/2006/10/15/apartheid-yardbirds-and-the-saints/#comment-431 When I went to school, segregation was a done deal; I don’t recall feeling any particular angst about it. Were I a city child, no doubt the parents would have fled to the suburbs out of fear of the unknown; as a rural child, well, nearly all were in the same straitened circumstances and to escape a life of poverty while I was still in elementary school, my stepdad took a job as a traveling welder and we traveled west toward opportunity.

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