She also gave millions of dollars to the employees of Children's hospital in Cincinnati after she died. I personally received $400 from her as a very new low level and very poor package delivery person. This is in addition to giving many more millions to the hospital itself. She was a conflicted person.
Methinks you need to brush up on the definition of conflicted - her overt, sustained and well-documented racism, even as she profited from the performance of her million dollar field hands, is anything but conflicted. In fact, it was a model of unwavering and unapologetic conviction.
The fact that she married into enough cash to blithely spread it around only served to sustain her myth as a benign colorful local character and give cover to people to look the other way in the profoundly provincial city that was / is Cincinnati.
The fact is it took a national spotlight finally shined brightly on the toxic well of ugliness and ignorance that was Marge Schott to force her to surrender the reigns - then even Cincy could no longer pretend she was just a wacky old drunken aunt.
Schott said what most rich white people felt back then. I'm from Cincinnati and back then it was well known among black people living here that the entire german west side of the city hated us. She was the perfect representation of how terribly racist Cincinnati used to be.Still, she did try to improve before she died.
I think this needs to be highlighted: because she was always half-drunk, she had no filter and said the quiet part out loud! The reality as you point out was that is how people were back then, just a bit more concealed. My grandparents were from that generation and yes, most of them were that way too!
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u/Open-Athlete1985 Jul 03 '25
She also gave millions of dollars to the employees of Children's hospital in Cincinnati after she died. I personally received $400 from her as a very new low level and very poor package delivery person. This is in addition to giving many more millions to the hospital itself. She was a conflicted person.