Residents of small Ky. city rally around IR couple

The response to the racist attack is heartwarming.

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Information from: Lexington Herald-Leader, http://www.kentucky.com

 

Thank you for sharing this. It is nice to see people doing the right thing.

 

I wish more people were like this....

 

That's great the community has the back. Long way from the way things use to be.

 

Very poignant response from the community to the pieces of garbage that in 2011 are seemingly stuck in time.

Sends a clear message to such folks who can't control their racist mindset.

 

its nice to see good outnumber the bad. its too bad the evil people get all the attention

 

this kind of thing makes me happy that the community would stick up for the couple after a little prick ruined their vehicles! I just can't believe people can do something like this in this day and age, I mean really, keep your racism to your damn self! Glad they are investigating and hope they get caught.

 

good the community backs them (makes a change) as for the asshole/s who did it lets hope they get caught next time, these cowards always do it when its real late at night

 

Good post, but some people used it as an opportunity to spread more hate. View the comments here.

http://www.kentucky.com/2011/07/14/1810706/berea-rallies-around-interracial.html

 

Eeech! Just read some of it. The ignorance in this country often STILL astounds me. You never get used to it, no matter how "used to it" you are, you know...smh.

 

slowly but surely...i hope. i live 30 miles from Berea.....

 

Berea is one of the most unique towns in the South. They have a town college called Berea College which was founded before the Civil War by an abolitionist minister who also established antislavery and anti-race prejudice churches based on principles of impartial love and Christian brotherhood with interracial membership.

African American families settled in Berea to make a new life and get an education. Many of these families arrived in 1870 to help build up the interracial town, churches and Berea College. Over 200 black families settled in or near Berea.

Free Blacks were fully integrated not concentrated into one area of town. Blacks and whites lived together on campus, as students, and in all four directions.

Even Berea College's faculty was interracial until 1904 when the state forced racial segregation.

The town had a racially interspersed design, so that blacks and whites would have each other as neighbors.

By 1874, Berea had 74 white families and 40 black families as landowners, it was one of a handful of areas in where black families could have land of their own without being threatened with violence.

Some Black men became so successful in business or farming that they not only had many other Blacks working for them but, Whites as well.

After the Civil War, Berea was seen as a place that free Black families could own land, get married legally and earn money from their own labor.

It has always served as an example to me of how despite the horrors of slavery post-Civil War Black Americans worked hard to maintain and stabilize their families, educate their children, work for every penny they receive and positively participate in the communities they lived.

It also serves as an example of how years of oppressive laws, disenfranchisement, segregation, violence and above all the approval of the vast majority to reverse these few gains and ruin the hopes and dreams of many.

 

great info....luv i when i learn something new...thx for the post

 

It makes me wonder if even half the town's people know its history then? This should be profiled at a townhall meeting...then soon enought the racists will understand that it's themselves who should get out of Berea.

 

The racist are ignorant in more ways then one I guess.

Truth is something one has to seek and desire.

The people who support the couple likely are aware of the history and certainly don't want their neighbors mistreated by some foolish cowards.

 

I wish more people in our state knew about the history of Berea. My Mother has spent time in Berea and she loved it. My Niece was considering Berea College but, decided to stay closer to home and attend a good Catholic university nearby.

 

i have to admit i have lived in SE KY the majority of my life and never knew the history. my hope is that the bluegrass and its residents at least try to grow out of racial ignorance. but i'm not really sure if this incident even made the 6 oclock news in my area. maybe it did in LEX.

 

I wonder what have happen since on this KY story

 

i have yet to see or hear anything new about the incident locally...if i find something, i will share the info.

 

thanks