tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10010207.post-55211585279539522672008-03-13T20:28:00.000-05:002008-03-13T20:28:00.000-05:00Remember the Titans was Hollywood fiction. Ask around. Arlington, Alexandria and Fairfax were integrated long before 1971. I went to integrated Jr High when I came back from Europe in 1964. The about TC Williams that was true was how to integrate the staffs and traditions when two high schools merge.<BR/><BR/>A Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division was put on alert to go stop the rioting in Boston in 1974 about integrating South Boston High School. That is fact.<BR/><BR/>If you have a scale for state racism - and disaggregate it and date it for all time, or for one year,or one event etc - I'd sure like to see it. <BR/><BR/>Let's pretend there is an average state racism...tbd...and Virginia was above it or below it as experts on racism (I always defer to Liberals on this - they are professionals) then so what? <BR/><BR/>What does it mean today? Or, are you saying that Virginia is above or below some standard of racism today for states?James Atticus Bowdenhttp://www.americancivilization.netnoreply@blogger.com