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Originally Posted by Bert Jones
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You too? "Wikipedia"??? You all are drowning while clinging to straws.
For guys who think "Obamacare" is insurance, it fits though!!!!
Do you think "Wikipedia" and advertisements trump Federal, State, and Local documents?
Is that why you all believe "Obamacare" is insurance?
So let me get this straight, BJ (forgive the pun), you actually believe that a drug store which did not allow African Americans to sit at its lunch counter during segregation days would be located in "a Freedman's town"? FYI Nau's ENFIELD Drug was operated the same as Woolworth's (at 6th and Congress) in those days ... no Blacks sitting at the lunch counter~!
Here's the ...
.... VERIFIED, RECORDED, AND VETTED GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT:
in the Official Property Records of the City of Austin...
http://www.austintexas.gov/sites/def...larksville.pdf
BTW: Again, I ask you ........."Have you ever been on West Lynn?"
Even YouRong has ADMITTED that Clarksville is on the other side of West Lynn from Nau's ENFIELD Drug?
Let me put the public relations issue in perspective .... when Nau's was opened on West Lynn ... Black folks rode in the back of buses, couldn't swim at the city pools, were in separate schools (one of them in Clarksville), and were not allowed to sit on drug store lunch counters ... or any other "White" establishment. The University of Texas had a shameful history of excluding Blacks.
And Blacks were not allowed to sit at the lunch counters Every adult White person in "West Austin (which included "Enfield") knew what and where was Clarksville. They would NOT HAVE stepped into a drug store in Clarksville patronized by Blacks .. well ... probably 90 % of them. So the drug store was established on West Lynn, which was a major street passing BY CLARKSVILLE from Enfield Road to Lake Austin Blvd. But it was outside of Clarksville.
Once desegregation took hold and it because "trendy" in Austin to "bond" with those who had been isolated and live where they walked and "hunkered down" ............. then folks like Nau's decided to CASH IN on the trend .. so they started ADVERTISING to attract the "trendy" crowd who wanted to believe they were soaking up the culture from way back. That's AUSTINITIS for you.
(The "interesting" thing is that Nau's ENFIELD Drug DOES NOT take advantage of the "generous incentives" provided by the City of Austin for businesses in an HISTORIC ZONE ... and made no application for such "incentives"...... tax breaks and grants .. in a city that is know for some of the most generous incentives in the country. The realtors who want to stick pricey real estate up "trendy" asses for excessive prices perpetrate the fraud that Clarksville encompasses more area than it really does.....those buyers don't get the incentives either, btw.)
But if it makes you feel better go ahead and "believe" it ... just like you believe "Obamacare is insurance."
But don't get on here and cite advertisements and wikepedia as authority in difference to government documents.
