'A Concentration Camp for Little Boys' | Drudge Retort

Monday, March 04, 2013

'A Concentration Camp for Little Boys'

In the town of Marianna, Fla., conversations about the school are difficult. Calvin Creamer, 62, knew the school cobbler who made boots with markings in the heels so they could track the boys down if they ran away -- and the leather straps for the floggings. "They were mean people to start with," he said of the men who dispensed the discipline. "Back then, it was torture for those boys. And the police didn't care either. They would strip them down and strap them to 50-gallon drums bear naked, and then they'd beat them."

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Thomas McSwaine, 42, runs a pet adoption shelter in one of the old warden's cottages on the campus and has heard all the stories. About the worst is of one night when the wardens woke up some boys on the white side of campus –- this was before desegregation –- brought them to a field in the dark, gave them guns and told them to shoot anything that was moving. "When they flipped those lights on they saw all these black kids running across the field and they had to shoot them." ...

A decade ago, [victims] began finding one another by email and social networks and sharing their painful memories. In a book that Roger Dean Kiser eventually wrote about his time at the school -- The White House Boys: an American Tragedy -– he called it a "concentration camp for little boys."

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America, the beautiful, God shines his love on thee.....

Like the Catholic Church, America has some horrible history that needs to be dealt with.

#1 | Posted by danni at 2013-03-03 08:33 PM | Reply | Flag:

That this went on for so long... this place is basically a battlefield in the ongoing class war. Maybe it should be memorialized as such. It should certainly be memorialized in some capacity. Not swept under the rug or turned into condos and shopping malls.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2013-03-03 10:00 PM | Reply | Flag:

strap them to 50-gallon drums bear naked, and then they'd beat them."

Posted by HeliumRat at 08:02 PM | 2 COMMENTS | permalink |

I've never seen a naked "bear" especially with a 50-gallon drum strapped to him.

#3 | Posted by matsop at 2013-03-03 10:27 PM | Reply | Flag:

Ever seen a bear wear a suit? Even slacks and a shirt? Bears are pretty much naked 24/7.

#4 | Posted by Harry_Powell at 2013-03-03 10:42 PM | Reply | Flag:

The model of the modern skool system for the Obama youth.

#5 | Posted by reitze at 2013-03-03 10:50 PM | Reply | Flag:

"America, the beautiful, God shines his love on thee.....
Like the Catholic Church, America has some horrible history that needs to be dealt with."
#1 | Posted by danni at 2013-03-03 08:33 PM | Reply | Flag: 'No, no, no. Not God Bless America. God d*mn America'

Ironic comment considering:

"Florida School for Boys, also known as the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys (AGDS), was a reform school operated by the state of Florida"
en.wikipedia.org

And BIG government Danni blames the Catholic Church while embracing the government that she gladly gives more and more power to.

#6 | Posted by KBM at 2013-03-03 11:13 PM | Reply | Flag:

"Danni blames the Catholic Church..."

For this? Where?

#7 | Posted by REDIAL at 2013-03-03 11:19 PM | Reply | Flag:

The article says the town was a bastion of the KKK. It fails to mention how many of its voters were registered Democrats when these atrocities happened.
Hint: All of them.

#8 | Posted by Diablo at 2013-03-04 12:11 AM | Reply | Flag:

"Like the Catholic Church, America has some horrible history that needs to be dealt with."

In Protestant,Democrat Panhandle Florida of 1900, Danni finds a Catholic!

#9 | Posted by Diablo at 2013-03-04 12:59 AM | Reply | Flag:

This article on the atrocities would have stood on its own, but either the author or the editors decided they needed to jazz it up and injected a completely unrelated reference to the KKK into both the article and the headline title. Someone who just glazes over an article might come away with the impression that the KKK was somehow tied to the abuse, instead of the State of Florida. Shameful 'journalism'.

#10 | Posted by MUSTANG at 2013-03-04 07:40 AM | Reply | Flag:

"Danni finds a Catholic!"

Just saying that we, as a nation, have swept many things under the rug just like the Catholic Church, which I was raised in, did. I don't hate the church, I wish it would do a self-examination though and begin to heal itself. Perhaps a new pope will begin that process.

#11 | Posted by danni at 2013-03-04 07:47 AM | Reply | Flag:

#8
so the party of your prefence has that moniker now. what can you do about it, defend it?
get current, it's what matters now!

#12 | Posted by ichiro at 2013-03-04 08:12 AM | Reply | Flag:

This article on the atrocities would have stood on its own, but either the author or the editors decided they needed to jazz it up and injected a completely unrelated reference to the KKK into both the article and the headline title. Someone who just glazes over an article might come away with the impression that the KKK was somehow tied to the abuse, instead of the State of Florida. Shameful 'journalism'.
#10 | POSTED BY MUSTANG AT 2013-03-04 07:40 AM | FLAG: SEES NOT RELEVANT INFORMATION

"The article says the town was a bastion of the KKK."

#13 | Posted by ichiro at 2013-03-04 08:15 AM | Reply | Flag:

The article says the town was a bastion of the KKK. It fails to mention how many of its voters were registered Democrats when these atrocities happened.
Hint: All of them.
#8 | Posted by Diablo

Do you have credible proof for that statement, or are you just lying again?

#14 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2013-03-04 08:27 AM | Reply | Flag:

"The article says the town was a bastion of the KKK. "

In other words, a Christian community.

#15 | Posted by nullifidian at 2013-03-04 08:31 AM | Reply | Flag:

"In Protestant,Democrat Panhandle Florida of 1900, Danni finds a Catholic!"

Diablo still thinks that the Democratic party of today is the same as the Democratic party of yore.

Do you also think that today's GOP is the same Republican Party that brought us Abraham Lincoln?

History, O Devil, is an interesting thing.

#16 | Posted by pragmatist at 2013-03-04 08:34 AM | Reply | Flag:

Do you also think that today's GOP is the same Republican Party that brought us Abraham Lincoln?

Mitt, Abe, two men cut from the same cloth in the wingdings eyes.

#17 | Posted by 726 at 2013-03-04 02:08 PM | Reply | Flag:

Diablo still thinks that the Democratic party of today is the same as the Democratic party of yore.

Anything to avoid the truth. Conservatives merely accept their "reality" over the reality the rest of the world recognizes.

#18 | Posted by northguy3 at 2013-03-04 02:40 PM | Reply | Flag:

Amazes me how someone will try and twist words that are so true. There is a very dark past in America. You don't have to go back to far to see it. Danni is right in comparing it to the acts of many in the Catholic church. It fits.

#19 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2013-03-04 05:29 PM | Reply | Flag:

"Do you have credible proof for that statement, or are you just lying again?"

Doc, ever read a history book? The south was solidly Democrat for decades until the late 1960's when the Republicans started making inroads.

#20 | Posted by Diablo at 2013-03-04 06:08 PM | Reply | Flag:

#20 | Posted by Diablo

Very good diablo, now what happened in the South in the 1960s that caused the Democratic south moved to be republican?

#21 | Posted by PunchyPossum at 2013-03-04 10:08 PM | Reply | Flag:

American exceptionalism at its best. If we could just take off our rose colored glasses for a minute we would be horrified at what we really are. How many civilians have we killed in the middle east since GW launched his war to kill Arabs regardless of in involvement in 9/11. Hint. Most of the hijackers were Saudi.

#22 | Posted by Laius at 2013-03-05 04:07 PM | Reply | Flag:

" The south was solidly Democrat for decades until the late 1960's when the Republicans started making inroads."

Until the Democrats began supporting Civil Rights, when that happened millions of white southern Democrats became Republicans and thus the GOP began presidential campaigns using the Southern Strategy.

#23 | Posted by danni at 2013-03-05 04:16 PM | Reply | Flag:

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