Reply #7: Well, I also read about the mixed family where they only wanted to

[Mr_Spock]

let the whites in the family across the bridge because even though they said they WERE ALL FROM GRETNA. The cops didn't believe the blacks in the family could be from Gretna though they finally let the entire mixed race family through after much cajoling. If you saw the interview, you would have a hard time discerning between the class prejudices and racial profiling and you know that they assumed that NO blacks on the wrong side of the bridge COULD POSSIBLY be from Gretna. It was pretty sad and the guy kept getting caught in lies. Even if there was no racism, there was classism and they sent the people back to possibly die and should be going to jail either way.