>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?

You have posted nothing supporting forced segregation in the north:

"Well I was raised in suburban Washington D.C. and did not go to school with a African American until the 7th grade when ONE student was sent to Williamsburg Jr. High School. So segregation WAS NOT just a southern thing."

Where is the proof of forced segregation? Is it possible that no blacks lived in your school district until then?

And if they did, where did they go to school? Was there a separate school for blacks in Williamsburg? When was this? And if this was forced integration, kind of strange that they only sent one, isn't it?

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

And what does this prove? I have never argued that racism does not exist in the north.

>>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.
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>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.

Who has proposed this fantasy? Certainly not me. You will not find a single post from me indicating racism did not and does not exist in the north. Forced segregation in the north? I still haven't seen any examples of it.