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Affirmative Action and Lester Maddox
Lester Maddox, who was elected one of the last of the South's fist-shaking segregationist governors in 1966 after he and his friends used pick handles and a gun to scare blacks away from his fried-chicken restaurant, died Wednesday at 87. Generation X can't remember and the Baby Boomers want to forget this history, however, at some point our country must come to terms with this legacy of racial injustice and its current hidden institutionalized forms and the corporate strategy designed to control the working-class population.
Lester Maddox, who was elected one of the last of the South's fist-shaking segregationist governors in 1966 after he and his friends used pick handles and a gun to scare blacks away from his fried-chicken restaurant, died Wednesday at 87. Generation X can't remember and the Baby Boomers want to forget this history, however, at some point our country must come to terms with this legacy of racial injustice and its current hidden institutionalized forms and the corporate strategy designed to control the working-class population.
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