Tag: Garry Blanson

By Garry Blanson Recently, during a conversation, a local Black female teacher that teaches in the Monroe City School System presented me with a question that left me almost speechless. Her question was, “How do you think I felt as…

By Garry Blanson Strangely, as I was researching U.S. Senator Russell Long, I came across an article that mentioned the term,”SEGREGATED ACADEMY.” Come to find out that after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the Landmark Civil Rights Case,”Brown versus…

By Garry Blanson Well, well, well, whata’ you know? According to an Associated Press article from November 16, 1960, it was reported that “U.S. Senator Russell Long of Louisiana” actually urged the State Legislature to “consider abandoning the public school…

By Garry Blanson It’s fascinating how every week I’m able to find a different “FORGOTTEN BLACK PIONEER!” Sometimes while I’m researching a totally different subject, I get drawn to an event, post, or person that leads me to someone new,…

“Everything You Are and Possess Today, Whether Good or Bad, Will Pass Down To Those Who Come After You” – Paul J. Meyer. Never would I have thought that by accepting to help a friend with an out-of-town assignment, I…

By Garry Blanson As some of our Black Youth in Monroe, Louisiana are celebrating the recent High School Basketball Championships of local High Schools in Monroe, I stumbled across information about a “NOW “DEFUNCT SEGREGATED” government program that was setup…

By Garry Blanson Recently, I came across a legal term known as,”Racial Polarization.” Although you don’t really hear the term used that much anymore, the term actually goes all the way back to the 1860s! It seems that the term…