1985 James Meredith on the failure of integration

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James Meredith - Wikipedia

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The first Black Student at University of Mississippi.
Sniped by a white gunman for integrating it.

Late on in life, he went on to work for uber-conservative Jesse Helms

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1985/02/23/james-meredith-a-change-of-course/58eeb9f6-4c2c-4c98-9885-52d87d80edd0/

"Integration is the biggest con job ever pulled on any group of people, any nationality in the world," he said to an American history class. "It was a plot by white liberals to gain black political power for themselves and their wild ideas, and for a few black bourgeoisie who were paid to exercise leverage as black spokesmen. I've never heard any other black person say integration did one good thing for them."

News to me, as I did not know about his change of heart until today.

 

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Wow. His name came up in the news, and I thought that he had passed. Instead it was the marking of 55 years since an assassination attempt on him.

Going to read more about his current views, but I do remember that some of the Black Panthers had shift in political social views a few decades afterward.

 

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James Farmer of CORE advocated for integration in the 60s. Now he says it was a mistake.