>Forced segregation? Whites only restaurants and drinking fountains? If that >happened in the north, I haven't heard of it. I think we all have seen >pictures of it in the south.

You "hearing" of it does not matter. I just told you that I lived it. It was such a big deal at the school I attended that I still remember the name of the fellow. It was Alan Best and he was the FIRST black person that I ever went to school with IN SUBURBAN WASHINGTON DC. Not the south by any means. And yes it was forced. It happened quietly but it was forced. So since I lived this... how can you write that it did not happen?


>>MLK said that the worst hatred he ever saw in any march was in Chicago.

>Well, I don't know what to make of that. Maybe it was one particular march >with a handful of angry whites, or maybe it really was the worst march.

Well HE said it was so how can you say maybe it was not. HE was there, were you? And by the way it was in response to a reporters question about racism being only in the south. I had seen the video footage before and saw it again during the recent King celebration. It is a fact...

>But I really don't know how southerners can make the argument that racism was >worse in the north. And I have heard that from southerners for a long time.

Well that was not MY point.... if you have heard that it is, of course not true. It is also a fantasy that segregation and racial hatred did not and/or does not exist in the north.