Time Magazine in 1958: Blacks are 10% of the population in 1,551 cities but commit 60% of violent crime. Northern mayors consider this their biggest problem and are afraid to talk about it. Black leaders blame racist law enforcement.
Black problems didn’t start with LBJ.
Time in 1958: NAACP tries to get people not to talk about black crime. Many whites are uncomfortable about the subject, and newspapers go out of their way not to mention a crime suspect’s race.
Time: Many blame poverty, but poor immigrants don’t commit crime like blacks do.
Change a few words around and this whole thing could’ve been written today. The media wouldn’t publish it of course but nothing has changed in 66 years!
The article ends up blaming failures of integration anyway and demanding society to do more to make blacks feel accepted. Read the whole thing here. time.com/archive/661258…
Last year, @robkhenderson and I reviewed the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle. We were shocked by how little had changed in terms of race relations. Listen to or watch our whole conversation here. richardhanania.com/p/did-one-film…
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