little rock reaction

The video on the town of Little Rock and problems faced by the little rock nine still in a way make the whole idea of segregation seem over the top and heartless. To think that a mob of people would come every day and possibly be let of from work for the day just so they and their bosses, wife's, and mailman, could rage at a group of children is disheartening to me. Dr.Roberts story on his gym couch telling the boys beating on him to step up and fight him like a him men is such a fantastic way to give an understanding to how how much his struggles was a way of life for all of them and his being there was the challenge. My grandmother loved the atmosphere of the south the heat and the sweetness but she had to leave it all behind because the white folk in her town where so mad at the things other blacks did they had to let it out their anger at whoever.