--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "wernerapnj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> """"
> The Race Question At Asbury Park
>
> Asbury Park, NJ, July 14 - The colored people here are not as
indignant as was supposed
> over the action of James A. Bradley in arranging a separate bathing
ground for them. The
> members of the Afro-American League, who were active in the movement
to hold a
> meeting tonight, in which Mr. Bradley was to be strongly denounced,
found but little
> sympathy, and the whole thing ended in a fizzle.
>
> This evening the colored people denounced the hot-headed persons who
talked of
> holding the indignation meeting. After conferring together, the
leaders of the colored
> people decided that Mr. Bradley's action was justified by the
circumstances, and there
> will be no trouble here over the race question.
> """"
> The New York Times -1890
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> Applying modern values and standards to interpret events of another
time and context
> leads to distorted conclusions.
>
> Werner
>
"Uh, Yes sir, Mr. Bradley! No problem at all, sir! We agree with the
segragation for the good of the hotels! Don't know why you hung those
signs up there at all! Not like any of us was going down there to the
beach! We was the one's that wanted the segregation so we never went!"
Good grief.
Careful the historian who considers less than the whole.
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