That’s easy to say when the entire economic and political landscape is dominated by people who share the same views as you. I don’t know where you stand on vaccine “passports,” but if you’re against them, I hope you refuse to watch Fox News, because they require them of all employees unless they routinely submit to COVID testing and wear masks at work all day. I also hope you’re comfortable with people being turned away from businesses that require masks for any patrons. Or if you’re on a 100 mile stretch of highway with one segregated black gas station, I hope you would just be ok with running out of gas and being stuck. Or if your kids are hungry and there’s one black diner on that stretch of highway, I hope you’re ok with your kids not eating for a couple more hours. I also hope that if the legislature in your state were controlled by black people that you’d either not care to vote, or not mind passing a reading test and paying a poll tax to vote. I hope you wouldn’t mind if your children went to a poorer school district because the majority of resources and the best teachers only taught at black only schools. I mean why would you want to patronize a business or an institution that doesn’t want you?
I don't think Maddox EVER integrated his restaurant; rather, this is a picture of his announcement that he would permanently close his Pickrick Restaurant
@@jamesfreeman2258 he was referring to God's people, the least of God's people, you do onto HIM. But y'all done MUCH evil to GOD'S people, GOD DON'T FORGETS
Lester reopened another Pickrick in North Atlanta that closed about 1977. All I can see online is that he closed the first restaurant in '65, and nothing about the Sandy Springs location. I went with my parents in '76 a couple of times. You went in the front door and were greeted by a garbage can full of ax handles (Drumsticks) I had no idea at the time what the purpose of them were, you picked up your multi-sectioned plastic tray, and waited in a cafeteria style line to get the food and then sat down at one of the few tables they had there. Am I the only one who thinks that things are being purposefully deleted from the internet and history as well?
Jesse Jackson writes about spitting in white people's food. Also after the '65 Watts Riots many fast food franchises moved into So. Central. They all failed because people found out if you weren't black, they would spit in your food.
@@Ralphie5023 Ok, I'm assuming you aren't missing the point, but you are faking it. The right to choose is not the same thing as opting for something. You can choose to eat or not to eat somewhere. Either way is your choice.
@Brian Arbenz But the CHOICE has ALWAYS been there . You can choose to go there and be humiliated and served tainted food or go spend your money in your community and actually benefit from it . It's NOT about WAR , it's about HOW you fight it ?
Civil Rights laws don't prevent a restaurant owner from denying service to an individual based on that individual's chosen actions. They prevent denial of service based on a group's innate fixed characteristics. As for the restaurant being strictly "his" business? Does he grow all the food and raise all the livestock that provides his menu items? Does he generate his restaurant's electricity? Does he wash all the dishes? Did he pave the highways that trucks drive on to bring his restaurant its supplies? This idea that a private business is a strictly an individual entity ignores a lot.
Maddox changed restaurant policy not out of free but enforde will... And a private company, restaurant, means not public place rules... So If i was him back then i would put 2 fingers up and say screw u...all.
Georgia and other southern states passed laws in the 1800s requiring segregation of private businesses. So Maddox had long denied service to blacks because of forced enforcement. Why can't people understand that? The Civil Rights movement ended big government interference in private businesses.
@Silva Conrad you ask such a question! You must be out of touch with reality! Let me remind you. When the Colonist came to America to take land from the natives they were not wanted here but they stayed anyway. They raised their children, grand children and great grand children in a land where some of them forced themselves into. Lest we forget. Are you starting to remember now? Some people have forgotten how they got here and how their forefathers forced themselves into a society by murder, mayhem, rape, robbery, and land domination. If in 2022 you still think like that, then you are of the same mindset as the colonizers. Just because a person decides they want someone else's property and they decide to take it by any means necessary and they get to live on that property, the fact still remains that they have stolen the property. They can bring all their descendants to live on that property and they can all call it home because they "forgot" how it was originally obtained but that does not negate the fact that they are living on stolen property. Whites tell African Americans to go back to Africa and Natives tell Whites to go back to where they came from. If we are all going to live in this country peacefully without exclusion then you must have a mindset for diversity because that it the way this country was before any of us was ever born. PS: How can somebody be discriminatory on somebody's else's land? The arrogance of it all! They have no more right to be here than anyone else. We must never forget that this is "Indian Country." Paraphrasing Obama when he said, "Unless you are a native you came here from some place else." There are those who are indigenous to North America and there are those who are not. Which category do you fit in? If the Indigenous People where to send everybody packing where would you go? If people had to return to their own country who would be there to take them in? I love America and I love the diversity of its people. You are taught in the first grade how to get along with your classmates some people just refuse to conform to that idea and they think that they are justified in their thinking. Quoting the Bible, "How can you say you love Jesus who you have not seen and hate your neighbor who you see everyday, it says you are a liar. I agree with that Bible verse.
I agree! To hell went Lester and his restaurant! Eat some place else! Let people be who they are! It’s to much! Let America show God and the world, who they are!!! A violent, hate filled nation full sick, twisted weak minded people! A people hell bent on destroying itself through hate and ignorance!!! We have not evolved as a species! Lester was ignorant!
Why would someone want to eat at a place and give money to a business that doesn’t welcome them? I would eat somewhere else.
They didn`t want to eat there, they just wanted to make trouble.
Same thing they did with Forsyth County Georgia. Oprah went there and caused a huge scene just because the county was 100% white in 1986.
That’s easy to say when the entire economic and political landscape is dominated by people who share the same views as you. I don’t know where you stand on vaccine “passports,” but if you’re against them, I hope you refuse to watch Fox News, because they require them of all employees unless they routinely submit to COVID testing and wear masks at work all day. I also hope you’re comfortable with people being turned away from businesses that require masks for any patrons. Or if you’re on a 100 mile stretch of highway with one segregated black gas station, I hope you would just be ok with running out of gas and being stuck. Or if your kids are hungry and there’s one black diner on that stretch of highway, I hope you’re ok with your kids not eating for a couple more hours. I also hope that if the legislature in your state were controlled by black people that you’d either not care to vote, or not mind passing a reading test and paying a poll tax to vote. I hope you wouldn’t mind if your children went to a poorer school district because the majority of resources and the best teachers only taught at black only schools. I mean why would you want to patronize a business or an institution that doesn’t want you?
You would be surprised
@@BannedSports she had no business going there to cause chaos.
I don't think Maddox EVER integrated his restaurant; rather, this is a picture of his announcement that he would permanently close his Pickrick Restaurant
it never did. It shut down and took its underwhelming and bland biscuits with it.
I wouldn't spend a penny in that place even if I was starving to death
Deny GOD'S people their rights, and GOD will deny You paradise on judgement day
Rappers are God's people ?
If you serve the least of these, you serve Me...Jesus said this. I am one with anyone who has to fight against racism, sexism or ageism.
@@jamesfreeman2258 he was referring to God's people, the least of God's people, you do onto HIM. But y'all done MUCH evil to GOD'S people, GOD DON'T FORGETS
@@keithharrison9797
Who are God's people ?
Rappers ?
@@Ralphie5023 Black people of course, who else could it be the so called jews ??
Well...who would want to patronize his damn restaurant?
As goofy as he was when he became governor he hired more black people and gave out more state construction jobs than every other governor combined.
Evidence of your statement?
Actually that was more Jimmy Carter who succeeded Lester as governor.
Lester reopened another Pickrick in North Atlanta that closed about 1977. All I can see online is that he closed the first restaurant in '65, and nothing about the Sandy Springs location. I went with my parents in '76 a couple of times. You went in the front door and were greeted by a garbage can full of ax handles (Drumsticks) I had no idea at the time what the purpose of them were, you picked up your multi-sectioned plastic tray, and waited in a cafeteria style line to get the food and then sat down at one of the few tables they had there. Am I the only one who thinks that things are being purposefully deleted from the internet and history as well?
Interesting piece of United States history. Thanks for sharing.
They resemble the (crazy) couple from the movie - "The People Underneath the Stairs".
And Only One Month After The State Of Georgia Was Fraudelently Introduced To Mapmaking
The words in your clip offend me!
Terrifying to know I was born not too many years after this.
But I read that blacks from Africa could go in and eat. Is this true?
It's a cookbook!
Force integration is just as bad as force segration. No matter what you do, water and oil don't mix.
Oh! But they do to form something new, dont you know!
@@malvernwarmington4942 What?
@whatever man,. Go collect whatever points the hate groups give out to trolls for comments like that, then stay there.
Seggregation was forced though, you can't force integration you can only force segregation. No sympathy here.
The old days were better
Come on now being a black person would you really eat there 😂
They did eat there they just couldn't go inside.
Why would you want to eat somewhere where you aren't wanted , Maybe eating the server's spit ?
Jesse Jackson writes about spitting in white people's food. Also after the '65 Watts Riots many fast food franchises moved into So. Central. They all failed because people found out if you weren't black, they would spit in your food.
You are missing the point. It's the right to eat anywhere.
@@brianarbenz1329
But even where you aren't wanted ?
Would you actually enjoy that meal ?
@@Ralphie5023 Ok, I'm assuming you aren't missing the point, but you are faking it. The right to choose is not the same thing as opting for something. You can choose to eat or not to eat somewhere. Either way is your choice.
@Brian Arbenz
But the CHOICE has ALWAYS been there .
You can choose to go there and be humiliated and served tainted food or go spend your money in your community and actually benefit from it .
It's NOT about WAR , it's about HOW you fight it ?
In his business he can be serve who he likes. The management reserves the right to refuse custom without reason.
Civil Rights laws don't prevent a restaurant owner from denying service to an individual based on that individual's chosen actions. They prevent denial of service based on a group's innate fixed characteristics.
As for the restaurant being strictly "his" business? Does he grow all the food and raise all the livestock that provides his menu items? Does he generate his restaurant's electricity? Does he wash all the dishes? Did he pave the highways that trucks drive on to bring his restaurant its supplies? This idea that a private business is a strictly an individual entity ignores a lot.
Maddox changed restaurant policy not out of free but enforde will...
And a private company, restaurant, means not public place rules...
So If i was him back then i would put 2 fingers up and say screw u...all.
Georgia and other southern states passed laws in the 1800s requiring segregation of private businesses. So Maddox had long denied service to blacks because of forced enforcement. Why can't people understand that? The Civil Rights movement ended big government interference in private businesses.
Why would people who are not wanted somewhere force themselves into that situation?
Would you by any chance be a mayo maniac
@Silva Conrad you ask such a question! You must be out of touch with reality! Let me remind you. When the Colonist came to America to take land from the natives they were not wanted here but they stayed anyway. They raised their children, grand children and great grand children in a land where some of them forced themselves into. Lest we forget. Are you starting to remember now? Some people have forgotten how they got here and how their forefathers forced themselves into a society by murder, mayhem, rape, robbery, and land domination. If in 2022 you still think like that, then you are of the same mindset as the colonizers. Just because a person decides they want someone else's property and they decide to take it by any means necessary and they get to live on that property, the fact still remains that they have stolen the property. They can bring all their descendants to live on that property and they can all call it home because they "forgot" how it was originally obtained but that does not negate the fact that they are living on stolen property. Whites tell African Americans to go back to Africa and Natives tell Whites to go back to where they came from. If we are all going to live in this country peacefully without exclusion then you must have a mindset for diversity because that it the way this country was before any of us was ever born. PS: How can somebody be discriminatory on somebody's else's land? The arrogance of it all! They have no more right to be here than anyone else. We must never forget that this is "Indian Country." Paraphrasing Obama when he said, "Unless you are a native you came here from some place else." There are those who are indigenous to North America and there are those who are not. Which category do you fit in? If the Indigenous People where to send everybody packing where would you go? If people had to return to their own country who would be there to take them in? I love America and I love the diversity of its people. You are taught in the first grade how to get along with your classmates some people just refuse to conform to that idea and they think that they are justified in their thinking. Quoting the Bible, "How can you say you love Jesus who you have not seen and hate your neighbor who you see everyday, it says you are a liar. I agree with that Bible verse.
This is a empty question. An insult to all those who fought racism then and fo so now.
@Tyrell Hawkins TRUE
Fuck me ....... find another damn restaurant that WILL serve blacks then!!!!!!!
Ur missing the point
@@viv7169 low impulse is a characteristic
I agree! To hell went Lester and his restaurant! Eat some place else! Let people be who they are! It’s to much! Let America show God and the world, who they are!!! A violent, hate filled nation full sick, twisted weak minded people! A people hell bent on destroying itself through hate and ignorance!!! We have not evolved as a species! Lester was ignorant!
That's why african Americans need there on business
Always fight the racism …never fight the victim of racism
Simple little rule to live by
He was A Dem o crat
And the whole segregationist wing of the southern Democratic Party then is Republican today. They run the Republican Party, in fact.
And thus democrat plantation has begun
That comment makes no sense. But then most of them on this tread don't.