well ya got toruble

Well, either you're closing your eyes

To a situation you do now wish to acknowledge

Or you are not aware of the caliber of disaster indicated

By the presence of a pool table in your community.

Ya got trouble, my friend, right here,

I say, trouble right here in River City.(Meredith Wilson, “Ya Got Trouble”)

The right of citizens of the United States to vote

shall not be denied or abridged

by the United States

or by any State on account of sex.

Neither the United

nor any state has the right

to keep a citizen from voting

because she is a woman.(portion of the19th amendment of the US Constitution)

Many Americans had a negative response to the suffrage movement; they felt that an amendment to the Constitution giving women the right to vote would cause a radical turn for the worse in our culture. Opponents to women’s suffrage believed a woman’s role was to support the family and take care of matters at home. They thought the suffragist activists were behaving oddly in public, and that their psychological state was warped. In general, they believed women lacked the mental capability to participate in important political events such as elections. (news in history.com)

Friends, lemme tell you what I mean.

Ya got one, two, three, four, five, six pockets in a table.

Pockets that mark the diff'rence

Between a gentlemen and a bum,

With a capital "B,"

And that rhymes with "P" and that stands for pool!

Oh, yes we got lots and lots a' trouble.

I'm thinkin' of the kids in the knickerbockers,

Shirt-tail young ones, peekin' in the pool

Hall window after school, look, folks!

Right here in River City.

Trouble with a capital "T"

And that rhymes with "P" and that stands for pool!(Meredith Wilson, “Ya Got Trouble”)

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of national legislation in the United States that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S the Act prohibits states from imposing any "voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure ... to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color."

The 1965 Voting Rights Act was a natural follow on to the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Ironically, the 1964 Act had resulted in an outbreak of violence in the South. White racists had launched a campaign against the success that Martin Luther King had had in getting African Americans to register to vote. The violence reminded Johnson that more was needed if the civil rights issue was to be suitably reduced. (Ask.com)

Trouble, oh we got trouble,

Right here in River City!

With a capital "T"

That rhymes with "P"

And that stands for Pool,

That stands for pool.

We've surely got trouble!

Right here in River City,

Right here!(Meredith Wilson, “Ya Got Trouble”)

In a most ironically named case "Loving v. Virginia," Richard and Mildred Loving -- an inter-racial married couple -- were arrested in the early morning of 1959-JUL-11 by police who entered into their bedroom. They had been married five weeks before in the adjacent District of Columbia. The couple pleaded guilty to a felony under Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1662. ₅ They could have each received a 5 year prison term; instead, they were partly exiled from their home state for 25 years. Each was allowed to return to Virginia, but not together. The judge apparently ignored the principle of church and state as well as the equal protection clause in the U.S. Constitution when delivering his decision. Part of his ruling stated:

"Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races show that he did not intend for the races to mix."Interracial marriage was contrary to God's will, and interracial marriage was somehow "unnatural."

Interracial marriage in the United States has been fully legal in all U.S. states since the 1967 Supreme Court decision that deemed anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional.

Mothers of River City!

Heed the warning before it's too late!

Watch for the tell-tale sign of corruption!

The moment your son leaves the house,

Does he rebuckle his knickerbockers below the knee?

Is there a nicotine stain on his index finger?

A dime novel hidden in the corn crib?

Is he starting to memorize jokes from Capt.

Billy's Whiz Bang?

Are certain words creeping into his conversation?

Words like 'swell?"

And 'so's your old man?"(Meredith Wilson, “Ya Got Trouble”)

Hartford Public HS presented a play and the culmination had two males kissing.

Peter Wolfgang a representative of the Family Institute of Connecticut was up in arms.

Mr. Wolfgang posed and paused pointed fingers and finally said the following: See parents, see what happens when you first permit same sex marriage in your state. Our state of Connecticut permits this unnatural form of marriage and because of that schools now feel free to permit same sex kissing on a high school stage. See, what we have unleashed by opening the Pandora Box of equal not separate but equal when it comes to marriage.

Mr. Wolfgang raised his finger his veins throbbing as he warned the world of the coming end of the world scenario because like all the other changes denying separate from equal and making everyone equal, the fear of equality for all is terrifying. If you can’t hate openly, if you can’t segregate openly, if you can’t deny openly then there is gonna be trouble.

Well, if so my friends,

Ya got trouble,

Right here in River city!

With a capital "T"

And that rhymes with "P"

And that stands for Pool.

We've surely got trouble!

Right here in River City!(Meredith Wilson, “Ya Got Trouble”)