Reborn in America

Chapter 45: Helpless Compromise

When the host saw this situation, he was also a little embarrassed. He himself is not racially discriminatory, but he knows that the result of doing so is likely to make him lose his job. However, when the Carpenters were involved in the filming of the show, they suddenly forgot to remind them.

"Stop! Stop! You can't let these n*****s come up." The staff who was recording immediately came out to stop.

One of them was someone who looked like a show director. He was very angry and said, "Who made the n****r appear on my show! Who is it!"

There are already TV station staff standing aside with arms folded, and they plan to use a passive attitude to force the n*****s to leave. Some people plan to call the security of the building to drive these black people out of the building.

"No wonder the air is getting worse, it turns out that a n****r is coming among us."

"Shhh! Don't talk, let's see what they do."

"I didn't want to work with these dirty people even after I was killed."

"Get out! Get out of me!"

The Carpenters family was stunned. There were many blacks in the place where they lived, and there were many blacks among Bart's former colleagues. For them, a*******d is a joke, not realistic at all. They thought it was just an accompaniment and there would be no problem, but they didn't expect it would cause such a big reaction.

The black people who were stopped stood there, looking at people's contemptuous eyes. Some people are at a loss, some have clenched their fists with excitement, their palms are b****y with nails, and some look blankly at the people around them, not knowing what they are thinking.

Bart stood up coldly and said, "They are my friends! I asked them to come and accompany me!"

The director of the show said angrily: "You let these n*****s get out of me, I will never let any n****r appear in the camera."

"Then I won't record this show!" Bart said without concession. He grew up in a foreign country and knew what it was like to be discriminated against. Fortunately, when he was growing up, he met some good people, so he didn't become very extreme.

It's just that Barthes still feels for this kind of discrimination, and he feels that those people are really unreasonable. What is the difference between blacks, whites, and yellow races, not all of them are humans. Everyone has to see God after they die. For his old man, there is no difference in skin color.

Some TV station staff are on the side of the director, some show sympathy, and more are silent and neutral. All in all, the recording of the program stopped, depending on the situation, the recording could not go on.

"According to the rights granted by the U.S. law, I request to quote the "Plessy v. Ferguson" ruling and strictly enforce the a*******d policy in the workplace!"

The director of the TV show righteously said, as if he was a revolutionary martyr himself, that he wanted to expel the Carpenters and their black friends. Especially when he mentioned "Plessy v. Ferguson", he also received cheers from some white people present.

"Yes, we require strict compliance with the law!"

"Yes, that's right! The law must be followed by everyone."

This "Plessy v. Ferguson" refers to the fact that on June 7, 1892, Homer Plessy, who was one-eighth of black descent, deliberately boarded an East Louisiana Railroad for white people. Service train.

According to Louisiana laws passed in 1890, whites and colored races must ride in equal but segregated carriages. According to this law, Plessy was identified as a "colored race" and was arrested and detained.

So he took the Louisiana government to court, accusing it of violating his rights under the 13th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. However, Judge John Howard Ferguson (johnhowardferguson) ruled that the state government has the right to enforce the law within the state, and Plessy eventually lost the lawsuit and was fined $300 for violating the segregation law.

Plessy then sued Judge Ferguson's ruling to the Louisiana Supreme Court, but the court upheld Ferguson's original verdict. Even so, Plessy still refused to accept and continued to appeal. This case has lasted for several years.

In 1896, Plessy appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States. On May 18, the Supreme Court ruled by a 7:1 majority: "The Louisiana law does not violate the 13th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution, because'segregated but equal' does not mean discrimination against blacks, but only Confirm that there are differences between whites and blacks due to the difference in skin color."

Since then, U.S. laws have allowed states to provide segregation facilities. The system of segregation facilities includes schools, hospitals and train cars, football fields, drinking fountains, toilets, and so on. All in all, as much as possible to isolate all facilities.

The other party has carried a weapon like the law, and the Carpenters family has no room for refutation.

During this period, Alex wanted to say something several times, but he knew that he said nothing and said nothing. So he kept silent.

Bart stood up with a sullen face. He looked at the director and other staff members of the show, and then took Richard and Angel and walked out. Alex also left angrily, and the black band followed behind them.

Coming out of the studio, I saw people waiting outside for the Carpenters family. These people are from Carpenter Records, and they are here to cheer. I should have been sitting in the audience, but I didn't expect to see such a scene.

Rudy followed, and he opened his mouth and stared at the Carpenters family. He trembled and said, "You, you are all crazy! Do you know the influence of cbs in the record industry?"

Richard said vaguely: "Isn't cbs a broadcasting company?"

"f**k! They are a group company, not only music and TV, but even movies! They can pinch us to death as long as they stick out their fingers!" Rudy yelled, and he sighed and said, "I I also want to cooperate with the cbs company and use their sales channels to sell our records all over the world."

Bart lost his anger at this time. He touched his head and said, "Since the show cannot be recorded, let's go back."

Alex shrugged his shoulders and said, "Sooner or later we will be able to do what they do, sooner or later!"

Angel said with some regret: "If the show is recorded successfully, we will really be famous."

When the black people listened, they all showed embarrassed expressions. Strictly speaking, the Carpenters do not need to come out with them, and they can change to a white band to accompany them. It was they who dragged down the Carpenter family, and as a result, the show was offended.

Originally they thought that this thing would just pass. Unexpectedly, after the president of the cbs company heard about it, they immediately stopped Carpenter. At that time they had reached the gate and were about to find a car to go back.

"The accompaniment is fine, but the only condition is that black people cannot appear in the camera." said the president of cbs.

Bart and the others were indignant over this matter and did not want to agree to the request of the cbs company. They insisted on their demands and would never give in. Just as the negotiation was about to break down, Rudy was going crazy anxiously, and he kept putting pressure on them.

"My goodness! Are you stupid? This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If I had such an opportunity, I would even be willing to pretend to be a woman."

"Really? Are you really willing to pretend to be a woman?"

"It's fake! I'm going to be a real woman, how can I look up in front of other people in the future."

"Cut, I still want to say that if you pretend to be a woman, we will agree to the other party's terms."

In the end, they agreed to the cbs company's request, their band can not appear in the camera, but they must be allowed to play live. As for those staff members who were racially discriminatory, they were replaced by the cbs company, allowing employees who did not discriminate against black people to record programs.

The cbs company allowed it, so the Carpenters returned to the show. This time, they found that the atmosphere on the scene was much better after the change of the program staff. The staff who were replaced all smiled respectfully at them, and there were even a few black people in it. It seems that these are the kindnesses released by the cbs company to them.

These blacks were all temporarily transferred. They used to work in another place. They entered different doors, took different elevators, and used different offices. They do the same work, and get different wages.

Some blacks among them whispered as they passed by, "We think your family are very brave, really!"

For such words, they all responded with a smile. In the 1950s, the consciousness of black rights gradually awakened, but it was still firmly suppressed by the white-dominated society. Even if there is a riot, it is small and scattered. There has not been a trend that can affect society, and the black people just secretly bury this resentment in their hearts, and dare not show it.

Social turbulence is not caused by hierarchical differences, just like slave society, feudal society, etc., they also had periods of stable development. The reason for the turbulence is that the ruled party has power, so the autonomy of pursuing power begins to awaken.

The real civil rights movement had to wait until the 1960s, when American society was truly turbulent and full of smoke. At that time, the contradiction between black and white is extremely sharp, and a slight conflict will develop into b****y violence. If the Carpenters had dared to be like this at that time, they might have been stabbed by extremists in the white community a long time ago.

Those people who threw stones at their residences, poured gasoline and burned the houses, etc., were considered light. The number of people who sacrificed for the civil rights movement in that era was endless. They were kidnapped, assassinated, burned to death, disappeared, etc., and crimes were endless.