by Tdarcos » Tue Jul 16, 2019 1:46 pm
Flack wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2019 8:56 am
And then there's a lot about the politics, which was super interesting. There's a story about how the network absolutely did not want to play Cult of Personality by Living Colour (apparently MTV was more racist than we knew).
I was somewhat aware of this. I had heard that MTV had a rule, "Basically, they (MTV management) said, 'we'll show no [n—word| videos,'" (except for established artists, e.g. Michael Jacjson, Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder, etc.) And it was Michael's record company that broke the color barrier.
It has always been so, it
always took a corageous (for the time) stand by a white person to break the back of discrimination and segregation.
* Branch Rickey, general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, who, in 1945, decided to put Jackie Robinson in the lineup, beaking baseball's color line.
* Frank Sinatra, in the 1940s, on discovering the club he was performing at refused to allow Sammy Davis Jr. in to watch his performance, tore up his contract and refused to work there again, and this was when he wasn't known and needed the money. Years later, when they were performing in Las Vegas, at a hotel that he discovered would allow Sammy to perform, but wouldn't allow him to stay there, Frank informed the manager either they both would be staying there or he would be leavng, and borh would perform elswhere. That was the moment that hotel became desegregated.
* Collins J. Seitz, Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery, who heard the case of
Gebhart v. Belton, was asked to find the system of racial segregation in Delaware Public Schools to be unconstitutional.
The evidence at trial showed that black schools in Delaware were vastly inferior to white ones. The Chancellor, in his decision, admitted that he was bound by the 1896 United States Supreme Court decision in
Plessy v. Ferguson, which permits segregation if the facilities are "separate but equal," and felt, as a state court judge, it was not his place to try to change the law, and "that must come from the Supreme Court." However, he could find the facilities were
unequal, which made the segregation unconstitutional, and order the white schools to desegregate and admit the black plaintiff's children, and did so order. His decision was upheld by the Delaware Supreme Court.
On appeal by the school district to the U.S. Supreme Court, this and three other cases were combined to form the famous 1957
Brown v. Board of Education [of Topeka, Kansas] case, and was the only one of the four cases where the trial court had found segregation unlawful. Some time earlier, Chancellor Seitz had given a speech where he hoped someone would bring a case to attack a taboo: segreation in public school education, so that it coud be eliminated as the scourge that it was.
The same lawyer who argued
Gebhart had won an earlier case of
Parker v. University of Delaware, which resulted in a ruling from the Court of Chancery that segregation at the University of Delaware was unconstitutional.
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And then there's a lot about the politics, which was super interesting. There's a story about how the network absolutely did not want to play Cult of Personality by Living Colour (apparently MTV was more racist than we knew).
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I was somewhat aware of this. I had heard that MTV had a rule, "Basically, they (MTV management) said, 'we'll show no [n—word| videos,'" (except for established artists, e.g. Michael Jacjson, Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder, etc.) And it was Michael's record company that broke the color barrier.
It has always been so, it [i]always[/i] took a corageous (for the time) stand by a white person to break the back of discrimination and segregation.
* Branch Rickey, general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, who, in 1945, decided to put Jackie Robinson in the lineup, beaking baseball's color line.
* Frank Sinatra, in the 1940s, on discovering the club he was performing at refused to allow Sammy Davis Jr. in to watch his performance, tore up his contract and refused to work there again, and this was when he wasn't known and needed the money. Years later, when they were performing in Las Vegas, at a hotel that he discovered would allow Sammy to perform, but wouldn't allow him to stay there, Frank informed the manager either they both would be staying there or he would be leavng, and borh would perform elswhere. That was the moment that hotel became desegregated.
* Collins J. Seitz, Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery, who heard the case of [i]Gebhart v. Belton[/i], was asked to find the system of racial segregation in Delaware Public Schools to be unconstitutional.
The evidence at trial showed that black schools in Delaware were vastly inferior to white ones. The Chancellor, in his decision, admitted that he was bound by the 1896 United States Supreme Court decision in [i]Plessy v. Ferguson[/i], which permits segregation if the facilities are "separate but equal," and felt, as a state court judge, it was not his place to try to change the law, and "that must come from the Supreme Court." However, he could find the facilities were [i]unequal[/i], which made the segregation unconstitutional, and order the white schools to desegregate and admit the black plaintiff's children, and did so order. His decision was upheld by the Delaware Supreme Court.
On appeal by the school district to the U.S. Supreme Court, this and three other cases were combined to form the famous 1957 [i]Brown v. Board of Education[/i] [of Topeka, Kansas] case, and was the only one of the four cases where the trial court had found segregation unlawful. Some time earlier, Chancellor Seitz had given a speech where he hoped someone would bring a case to attack a taboo: segreation in public school education, so that it coud be eliminated as the scourge that it was.
The same lawyer who argued [i]Gebhart[/i] had won an earlier case of [i]Parker v. University of Delaware[/i], which resulted in a ruling from the Court of Chancery that segregation at the University of Delaware was unconstitutional.