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Apr 30 12 11:44 PM

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May 1 12 9:07 AM

Old Chuck had some serious sh*t to live with back then

everything was stacked against the black performers.
The whole piece was so biased against him it makes chilling reading. most depressing of all is the last line .. ..
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May 1 12 10:46 AM

QUOTE (hollowbody @ May 01, 2012 05:07 am)

Old Chuck had some serious sh*t to live with back then

everything was stacked against the black performers.
The whole piece was so biased against him it makes chilling reading. most depressing of all is the last line .. ..

While I agree that this makes for chilling reading, I don't agree that the news article is biased. It reads like a straight reporting of the incident in question, and the fact that the reporter who wrote it used the quote that ends it indicates to me a genuine (and successful) effort to be fair. If the reporter were biased, the Rev. Stanton's quote would never have been used.

The article is chilling because it is a window into the time, but the article itself actually surprises me with its fairness and accuracy. Blame the times and social conditions, yes, but laud the reporter, he did a good job during a bad time.

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May 1 12 11:06 AM

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Mississippi has no law forbidding interracial dating but laws and tradition forbid social race mixing

Depressing that in 2011 a survey showed that 46% of Mississippi Republicans (NB - such was the survey, & I'm not trying to make a political point here) still thought interracial marriage should be illegal.

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May 1 12 11:21 AM

Tom, I agree that the reporter gives out a fair reading of the facts as reported to him however reading between the lines I'm picking up the 'white' bias of the time in almost every word.

These newspaper clippings from RSKKZ can only be a small window back in time but they are compeling reading. /appl.gif

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May 1 12 12:48 PM

QUOTE (Tom Rushen @ May 01, 2012 06:46 am)

While I agree that this makes for chilling reading, I don't agree that the news article is biased. It reads like a straight reporting of the incident in question, and the fact that the reporter who wrote it used the quote that ends it indicates to me a genuine (and successful) effort to be fair. If the reporter were biased, the Rev. Stanton's quote would never have been used.

The article is chilling because it is a window into the time, but the article itself actually surprises me with its fairness and accuracy. Blame the times and social conditions, yes, but laud the reporter, he did a good job during a bad time.

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.....everything was stacked against the black performers.

It was no picnic for us "non-performers" either.

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May 1 12 2:31 PM

what we need now is for Chuck to turn up and tell us his side of the story but thats unlikely so here's Chuck on UK TV 1988 telling Michael Aspel what it was like playing in the South and being black.

chuck berry interview on UK TV 1988

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May 1 12 11:37 PM

QUOTE (Sherman @ May 01, 2012 08:48 am)

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Sherman, I'm not quite sure what you mean with the symbols and the one word, whether you agree or disagree with me...but if it is disagree, I'd be inclined to accept the critique as coming from a seriously more learned perspective.

I was really surprised, though, to read a Mississippi newspaper from that time actually take the time to print a quote of that nature from a local black preacher, and end the article with such an emphatic quote. Perhaps I'm reading more into it than the reporter intended.

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May 2 12 7:24 AM

And explaining Mississippi law and custom. I'd have thought that was a given for a Mississippi readership.

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May 2 12 12:15 PM

QUOTE (Tom Rushen @ May 01, 2012 07:37 pm)

QUOTE (Sherman @ May 01, 2012 08:48 am)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^THIS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Sherman, I'm not quite sure what you mean with the symbols and the one word, whether you agree or disagree with me...but if it is disagree, I'd be inclined to accept the critique as coming from a seriously more learned perspective.

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QUOTE (Tom Rushen)

I was really surprised, though, to read a Mississippi newspaper from that time actually take the time to print a quote of that nature from a local black preacher, and end the article with such an emphatic quote. Perhaps I'm reading more into it than the reporter intended.

Liberal Media? /hilarious

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