Thoughts on Being White | Race and Racism - The Story of White America

This is a 1950 North Carolina campaign poster for Willis Smith. This was only 62 years ago... Have we grown much as a nation? If you look at our neighborhoods? If you look at our schools? If you look at our political representatives? It seems that white people (who all but three of us in the WUW? are) have the same fears... we just don't put them on posters.

Some other tidbits:

William Levitt (You know the developer that mass produced suburban homes outside New York City) lobbied the Veterans administration as well as the the Federal Housing Administration to guarantee low-interest loans. These loans would make buying a home cheaper than owning a home (Capitalism working the government to its advantage). 

Here's the kicker - Levitt would not allow black families or single women sign a mortgage. DUH - why do you think modern style urban ghettoes developed at the same time?? How many african americans served in WWII and were eligible for loans from the Veterans Administration? What do you do with loans when the fucking builder won't let you sign a mortgage?

"And because federal housing agencies followed private lenders in 'redlining' - refusing to write mortgage loans - in the inner city, housing stock there deteriorated in the 1950s. Such neglect quickly turned many neighborhoods into slums. In cities such as Chicago, Philadelphia, and Buffalo, white families typically moved to he suburbs a few years after the appearance of the first African Americans on their block. Northern housing soon became more rigidly segregated than it had been any time since the Civil War." (Who Built America, p. 602)

Wally People Wake Up,

WhatUpWally?

WHITE PEOPLE WAKE UP

BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE

YOU MAY NOT HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE

DO YOU WANT?

• Negroes working beside you, your wife and daughters in your mills and factories?
• Negroes eating beside you in all public eating places?
• Negroes riding beside you, your wife and your daughters in buses, cabs and trains?
• Negroes sleeping in the same hotels and rooming houses?
• Negroes teaching and disciplining your children in school?
• Negroes sitting with you and your family at all public meetings?
• Negroes Going to white schools and white children going to Negro schools?
• Negroes to occupy the same hospital rooms with you and your wife and daughters?
• Negroes as your foremen and overseers in the mills?
• Negroes using your toilet facilities?

Northern political labor leaders have recently ordered that all doors be opened to Negroes on union property. This will lead to whites and Negroes working and living together in the South as they do in the North. Do you want that?

FRANK GRAHAM FAVORS MINGLING OF THE RACES

HE ADMITS THAT HE FAVORS MIXING NEGROES AND WHITES — HE SAYS SO IN THE REPORT HE SIGNED. (For Proof of This, Read Page 167, Civil Rights Report.)

DO YOU FAVOR THIS — WANT SOME MORE OF IT? IF YOU DO, VOTE FOR FRANK GRAHAM

BUT IF YOU DON’T

VOTE FOR AND HELP ELECT

WILLIS SMITH FOR SENATOR

HE WILL UPHOLD THE TRADITIONS OF THE SOUTH