When Carter returned to Plains, Georgia, to become a peanut farmer after serving in the Navy, he became a member of the Sumter County School Board, which did not implement the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision handed down by the Supreme Court. Instead, the board continued to segregate school children on the streets of Carter's hometown. ...Of course, you already knew that.
Carter's board tried to stop the construction of a new "Elementary Negro School" in 1956. Local white citizens had complained that the school would be "too close" to a white school. As a result, "the children, both colored and white, would have to travel the same streets and roads in order to reach their respective schools." The prospect of black and white children commingling on the streets on their way to school was apparently so horrible to Carter that he requested that the state school board stop construction of the black school until a new site could be found. The state board turned down Carter's request because of "the staggering cost." Carter and the rest of the Sumter County School Board then reassured parents at a meeting on October 5, 1956, that the board "would do everything in its power to minimize simultaneous traffic between white and colored students in route to and from school."
Didn't you?
How come I'm just hearing this story for the first time along with you? Do you think if Ronald Reagan had such stories in his past we might have heard about them during the election?
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That truly is a WOW story. Wonder why this has never seen the light of day before?? How was this story hidden so long?? I guess JC knows more about racism that he acknowledges. This story needs a lot more publicity!! I wonder if JC ever apologized to the black community for his comments.
Jimmy Carter is without relevance these days. For the last few years, his ideology has been akin to that of a senile old geezer. Before that, he was just wrong-headed. His record as POTUS speaks for itself. The only reason there seems to be a renewed sense of interest in his comments are because of the similarity of his wrong-headed ideology and that of our current Administration.
Boy, talk about the pot calling the kettle black, so-to-speak.
I wish Carter would take up golf.
It has seen the light before.
Back in 1976 25 year old Steven Brill wrote an article about the lies of Jimmy Carter.
It was widely discussed at the time.
I guess Dr. B was too busy working on his/her PhD to notice.
So, having beeen a racist, Jimmy know one when he sees one, right?
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