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Although I understand they did still do a show for whites only and one for blacks only.
Col, that happened until the US Supreme Court started unraveling the horrible legal fiction that was called "separate but equal." Started in 1954 (or was it '56?) with the SCOTUS decision on Brown vs. Board of Education and now there is no more of that kind of segregation.
But then again, for a while there was no "crossover" market anyway because white folks would not want to be seen at an event with a black musician. The racial revolution of the 1950s and 1960s developed momentum slowly, but inexorably.
By the 1970s, the group in which I was the organist had started to play the music of James Brown, Jimmy Smith, Wilson Pickett, and a few other black artists whose music had crossed to the "white" charts. We had no problem with it and in the Bourbon Street arena, nobody else did, either. Or if they did, they just walked to another bar.
Simple, tell the layabouts on the dole and benefits they have to do a minimum 6 months work or their free money is cut totally.
We've tried this a few times.
First, the liberals in this country get on their soap box and sob huge crocodile tears at how we are taking away the ability of these people to survive (but somehow they don't mention that we would also be taking away the liberal's election base...).
Second, we now have an illegal immigrant problem because we don't have enough people to take the agricultural harvester jobs that the welfare kings and queens are "too good" to take. So the lure of US dollars for the illegal immigrant labor force is too strong to ignore.
This will probably get me lectured by SOMEBODY or another, but it has to be said. Agriculture sometimes needs that cheap labor force. Back before the U.S. Civil War, it was based on slave labor. OK, that was bad - but it was an economic necessity at the time.
The Civil War was fought over state's rights, the most important of which was slavery. Abolition of slavery meant that a new labor pool would be needed and it was going to be more expensive. The North either didn't know or didn't care that abolition was going to make agriculture cost more and it would affect their prices too. After the war, the labor market in the South was all about sharecroppers, but that had mixed results.
After the invention of the internal combustion engine as a vehicle power plant, automated pickers helped with some of the load. But for things that are low to the ground like strawberries and various other ground vegetables and fruits, automated pickers do more damage than good. Not all small farms can afford a mechanical cotton picker.
And we STILL need a source of cheap manual labor because the welfare schmucks won't take the jobs and actually WORK for a living. So if you can actually get some of those welfare slobs off their fat duffs, please, PLEASE, PLEASE tell us how you managed it.
Pardon me if I don't hold my breath while waiting for that answer.