ANTEBELLUM RECONSTRUCTION 09/21/2019

This Saturday, September 21, 2018 on Behind the Blue Curtain   Mr. Robert Pearson will be our guest.  At 74 years old, Mr. Pearson has been a fixture at the Waco Municipal Airport in Waco Texas shinning shoes, carrying luggage and providing tourist tips to visitors for 14 years.  Suddenly he’s gone! Mr. Virgil Bell and his wife  Kay Bell will also be joining us form Waco Texas where Virgil is known by the the Citizens as "The Praying Man".  I call him Moses on the Brazos.  Virgil stands over IH 35  and prays over vehicles as they pass by, or persons in any weather, at anytime and virtually anywhere.  Why? What makes this simple man care so much for so many?  We'll also talk about  what I call “Antebellum Reconstruction” AKA  Community Improvement, City Beautification Projects, Community Development, Urban Renewal or Eminent Domain.  America is in a wave of city improvements that  benefit the local rich.  White flight is a term that originated in the United States, starting in the 1950s and 1960s, and applied to the large-scale migration of people of various European ancestries from racially mixed urban regions to more racially homogeneous suburban or exurban regions. The term has more recently been applied to other migrations by whites, from older, inner suburbs to rural areas, as well as from the U.S. Northeast and Midwest to the milder climate in the Southeast and Southwest.  Now these people want to live on the river or in a downtown studio apartment.  Only problem is poor people mostly, but not exclusively African American live there.   The call-in number is 646-716-4621.  Press 1 if you’d like to join in the conversation