Bruce's Beach Returns to Heirs.

[Ranb]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach

The land was bought in 1912 by Willa and Charles Bruce, who built the first west coast resort for Black people at a time when many beaches were segregated. The couple suffered racist harassment from white neighbors and the KKK, and in the 1920s, the Manhattan Beach city council took the land through eminent domain. The city claimed it needed the land for a park, but then left it vacant for decades and transferred it to the state of California in 1948.

You might think that the Bruce family getting the land back and leasing it to the County would not ruffle any feathers, but that would be naive.

https://easyreadernews.com/racial-r...tops-short-of-issuing-a-bruces-beach-apology/

The Task Force’s recommendations met heated opposition in the form of an anonymous media campaign from a group calling itself only “Concerned Residents of MB.” It issued mailers and paid for a two-page advertisement in The Beach Reporter that said Manhattan Beach had been “falsely accused of being a racist city” and that the task force was using race to “grab power.” The group called for disbanding the Task Force and denial of all its recommendations.

How does it go? Complaints are a confession?

“The task force is labeling Manhattan Beach as a racist,” said resident Angela Nelson. “Every town has a few bad apples.

It should be obvious to the most casual observer that the lilly white Manhattan Beach who forced out the black owners of Bruce's Beach for being black, is **** ing racist.

Ranb

 

[Donal]

People know what the full "few bad apples" expression actually is, right?

 

[Ranb]

People know what the full "few bad apples" expression actually is, right?

Yes. A few bad apples is nonsense when applied to politicians and police. The rest of the bunch tend to keep those bad apples close instead of throwing them away.

 

[The Don]

Yes. A few bad apples is nonsense when applied to politicians and police. The rest of the bunch tend to keep those bad apples close instead of throwing them away.

I disagree, those few bad apples really do turn the rest of the barrel bad.

 

[Ranb]

I disagree, those few bad apples really do turn the rest of the barrel bad.

What I was saying is that the bad apples are not discarded as they should be. The bad politicians stay in office and most of the bad police stay on the force.

 

[Silly Green Monkey]

That's what the saying means. A few bad apples aren't an issue for the barrel if they're removed, but if you leave them there, they spoil the whole barrel. It's a cautionary proverb, to clean up.

 

[Carlotta]

This sort of systemic and more aggressive racism is why many of us grew up without nice things. No pools in public parks or schools. For that matter, fewer parks or schools, altogether. Beaches? Long way away.

 

[Checkmite]

You might think that the Bruce family getting the land back and leasing it to the County would not ruffle any feathers, but that would be naive.

https://easyreadernews.com/racial-r...tops-short-of-issuing-a-bruces-beach-apology/



How does it go? Complaints are a confession?

It so readily seems that way doesn't it?

This is such a great case in point; a prime example of how racists like out themselves by becoming extraordinarily defensive when other people - even long dead ones - are accused of racism or racist acts. There is no real reason why the government entity that is Manhattan Beach acknowledging and apologizing for an unabashedly racist incident that took place 100 years ago has to be an indictment of anyone in the present day; the fact that people who weren't alive back then but who are responsible for performing the work and functions of that government entity in the present are the ones who have to write the apology because dead people can't operate the government, isn't a concession of personal culpability by those employees or anyone still living. It's irrational for the dissenters to say so.

But it's the same rhetoric that drives anti-"CRT" activism nationwide - a rhetorical assertion that any acknowledgement of racial inequality, even in the distant past, necessarily impugns other white people in the present day who haven't necessarily "done anything" racist, which makes that acknowledgement even of simple historical facts inherently "unfair" and impermissible.

 

[dann]

Beachfront Land Returned To Black Americans (The Daily Show, July 1, 2022 - 4 min)
That's right. Years after being forced to sell their property, black heirs have taken back ownership of their seized beachfront property.