Comments on: Fifty Years Ago Today, a Massive Resistance

By: brendanwolfe

brendanwolfe — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 02:41:34 +0000

It’s hard to know where to start, Southern Boy. Are you Southern or Irish? I, too, am the product of Irish immigrants. But the English did not rape “my” country because my country is the United States. I have no experience as an Irishman, only as an American.

I must say that my experience as an African American is severely limited, as well. Which is why I refrain, both privately and publicly, from telling those who have had that experience what it should mean to them.

By: Southern Boy

Southern Boy — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 01:42:26 +0000

I’m an Irishman living in America. My people were not only discriminated against and enslaved by the early Americans, but at the same time, the British literally raped my country and starved my people in their own homes. Do I hold a grudge? Do I look for a handout? No it’s in that past. You’ve got to come to peace with it. You can’t spend your life looking for a hand out, you’ve got to work hard in order to get where you want to go no matter what happened to your people in the past. I got nothin’ against black people, but some of them just need to let this stuff go. IT’S IN THE PAST! As can be seen in “tini m”s comment, some of them just look at this kind of thing as an excuse for a handout…

By: toni m

toni m — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 07:26:50 +0000

dude i wish they would give scholarships to the kids or grandkids…second pic is my dad and my uncle and i could used some college help

By: Linda W

Linda W — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:50:51 +0000

Interesting post. I was still in elementary school in 1958, in Fairfax County. My parents (who were originally from the midwest) got involved in “Save Our Schools” in hopes of keeping our public schools open. Fortunately, our county schools did not close and eventually integrated successfully, albeit very slowly.

By: Alison Hymes

Alison Hymes — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:10:22 +0000

A law was passed in the past few years by the Virginia General Assembly establishing a scholarship fund for that county’s students who were denied an education. It seemed too little, too late to me. And really would have made more sense to award scholarship money to their children and grandchildren given their age, unless I misunderstood or misremember the bill that was passed. In other words, not much was done to make amends to them.