Jensen: "No other ethnic group complained about being singled out by comparable signs."
How on Earth did anyone take this man seriously? Is he a visitor from an alternate universe where segregation never happened?
How on Earth did anyone take this man seriously? Is he a visitor from an alternate universe where segregation never happened?
Probably not a particularly important mystery, but weird.
If this [exodus] goes on, as it is likely to go on…the United States will become very Irish….So an Ireland there will still be, but on a colossal scale, and in a new world. We must gird our loins to encounter the Nemesis of seven centuries’ misgovernment. To the end of time a hundred million spread over the largest havitable area in the world, and, confronting us everywhere by sea and land, will remember that their forefathers paid tithe to the Protestant clergy, rent to absentee landlords, and a forced obedience to the laws which these had made. (The Times, quoted in The Nation, May 1860)