In response, the store closed early that day. When Henson came by with friends the doors were already locked. An officer in an unmarked squad car ran the dealer plates on Henson’s red SUV. They were from Kunes Country Ford-Lincoln, but a manager at the dealership could not determine who the car belonged to. The officer says he told the manager “four black males excited [sic] the vehicle.” To which the manager replied, “that’s not our normal clientele.” [emphasis added]
Here's one of the pitfalls of recalibrating our judgments of historical figures from a present-day perch, which I'm going to approach from the advice provided by one of my college professors in January 1970.
If you want to fully understand and appreciate the world of Chaucer and his pilgrims, you need somehow to put aside your 20th century mindsets. What you need to do is get inside the heads of Chaucer and his pilgrims so that you can see their world as they saw it. [Emphasis added.]
In other words, we need to keep in mind the values, beliefs, and attitudes that people held at a particular point in time, no matter how abhorrent, disagreeable, or dislikable we find them today. In the early months of the U.S. involvement in World War II, for example, the "Yellow Peril" was a well-known derogatory phrase familiar to and still used by many Americans.
Almost no one protested the government’s decision, and most non-Japanese took the evacuations in stride.
At the time, about 110,000 Japanese-Americans lived on the West Coast, a little more than 1% of the total California/Oregon/Washington population of just under 10,000,000. Those Americans who had a personal relationship with Japanese-Americans were much more likely to be disturbed by the government's internment policy.
But some were troubled by the removal of their friends and neighbors. “These students that we were going to school with, they were like our family,” said Dolores Silva of Sacramento. “And all of a sudden they said you have to leave within three days. And it was a terrible shock to us. And they were, like taking away my brothers and sisters. And I just felt so bad and we were just, we had our arms around each other that last day of school and we were all crying. Because we didn’t want them to go. It was not fair.”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, and died on April 12, 1945.
On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered to the western Allies, 25 days after the death of FDR.
On September 2, 1945, Japan formally surrendered, marking the official end of World War II, 143 days after the death of FDR.
Clearly, the reason that President Roosevelt 'was unable to curb conflict with the Soviet Union following WWII's conclusion' is that he simply wasn't around to do so.
As quoted in Off the campaign trail, Scott Walker is changing the way Wisconsin holds elections. (Washington Post, 10/22/2015)
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If that 310 million number is correct, it means that the first year of Barack Obama's presidency was an inflection point: It marked the first time that the number of firearms in circulation surpassed the total U.S. population.
"Everyone was sitting in the waiting room and there was a gun shot. A woman dropped her purse down on the counter and it shot through the wall and shot another lady," said Pressley.
A 2012 Congressional Research Service report published exactly one month before the Sandy Hook school shooting put the number of civilian firearms at 242 million in 1996, 259 million in 2000, and 310 million as of 2009.
People who vape praise the Foghorn juice not only for its flavor but for its ability to create giant cloud puffs from deep drags — a growing fascination known as "cloud chasing" among vaping enthusiasts.
The event was part of a small but growing trend. This week, for N.B.A. team officials’ benefit, Nevada-Las Vegas will hold a practice expressly designed like the N.B.A. scouting combine. Kentucky, a team that produced four first-round picks last year — three of them freshmen, including the top pick, Karl-Anthony Towns — had its N.B.A.-geared practice shown on ESPNU this month for the second year in a row.
