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I lived in the Jim Crow South in the late 1960s

Posted on: June 12, 2025 at 14:58:23 CT
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My dad got transferred from his job in St. Louis to Bogalusa, Louisiana (suburb of New Orleans) in 1967. I was four so really too young to remember it but my parents told the horror stories. Separate drinking fountains, separate bathrooms, back of the bus, sit only in the balcony at the movies, etc.

The straw that broke the camel's back was one night my Dad went bowling with a guy who he had become friendly with. The guy was a newspaper reporter, and his paper had been writing editorials against the Klan. When they got back from bowling, there was a cross burning in the guy's yard.

My parents decided they were not going to raise their kids (there were three of us at the time ultimately to be five) in that environment. He quit his job and came back to St. Louis with three kids and a car and we moved in with my grandparents until he got a new job.

Again, this was less than 60 years ago. When I hear all this talk about racism now, I just shake my head. Mt guess is that most minorities who are less than 40 have no idea what true racism is (except if you are Jewish).
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SCOTUS ruled on Loving v VA 58 yrs ago today resolving - raskolnikov MU - 6/12 14:09:39
     RE: SCOTUS ruled on Loving v VA 58 yrs ago today resolving - Breadtruck MU - 6/12 15:00:01
     I lived in the Jim Crow South in the late 1960s - OntheMark MU - 6/12 14:58:23
          RE: I lived in the Jim Crow South in the late 1960s - TigerMatt STL - 6/12 17:16:12
          We moved from CT to FL in '69 - raskolnikov MU - 6/12 15:03:38
               ^ thinks FL is still as it was in 1969 (nm) - 90Tiger STL - 6/12 15:52:49
                    ????????(nm) - raskolnikov MU - 6/12 16:27:30
               South St. Louis/St. Louis County was not a whole lot better - OntheMark MU - 6/12 15:33:46
               Sounds like a Biden Cornpop story(nm) - Wildcat KSU - 6/12 15:29:23
               I will take what never happened for $1,000 Alex(nm) - tman MU - 6/12 15:27:35
                    Think what you want - in fact for years there in Delray - raskolnikov MU - 6/12 15:48:21
     lol you're watching race mixing documentaries? (nm) - Columbian Gold MU - 6/12 14:34:05
          Docuramas, everything else if pure fiction - raskolnikov MU - 6/12 15:04:53
          He secretly wears a pointy white hat as well. (nm) - Outsider MU - 6/12 14:37:53
     What was Loving vs Virginia about? - Spanky KU - 6/12 14:32:06
          What I said(nm) - raskolnikov MU - 6/12 15:05:50
               It was not about infringing on marriage... it was about - Spanky KU - 6/12 15:07:26
                    Squirm much. Don't hurt yourself w/all that wriggling(nm) - raskolnikov MU - 6/12 15:23:11
                         It was about criminalizing it.. not banning it(nm) - Spanky KU - 6/12 15:28:56
                              Huh. Do we "ban" shoplifting and DUIs?(nm) - raskolnikov MU - 6/12 15:49:41
                                   Why was Alabama's law banning interracial marriage - Spanky KU - 6/12 15:55:35
     A lot of these mixed black and white kids - mizzouSECedes STL - 6/12 14:21:15
          Their IQ falls a full standard deviation from white people (nm) - Columbian Gold MU - 6/12 14:36:05
     And just look how far we've come. 50% of all ... - Outsider MU - 6/12 14:16:52
          Yeah, and queer too, pretty cool(nm) - raskolnikov MU - 6/12 15:07:04
               Yes, queers are severely over-represented - Wildcat KSU - 6/12 15:19:18
                    Maybe it is just they have money to spend and they prove - raskolnikov MU - 6/12 15:25:16
                         It's not as much that they are marketing to gay people - Wildcat KSU - 6/12 15:28:40
                              I don't have a dog in your fight here son - raskolnikov MU - 6/12 15:52:52
                                   Remember when Jack Tripper was faking being gay - Wildcat KSU - 6/12 16:01:35
                                        Wasn't my cup of tea, but sure(nm) - raskolnikov MU - 6/12 16:28:58
                    It's pushing a deviant agenda that puts a smile on - Outsider MU - 6/12 15:23:00
                         No, it's not(nm) - raskolnikov MU - 6/12 15:53:34
          That's right - Wildcat KSU - 6/12 14:30:44
               What's interesting is the least seen couple is - Outsider MU - 6/12 14:34:38
                    I seriously doubt that is true(nm) - raskolnikov MU - 6/12 15:07:50
          If a white patriarch lips are moving lies are happening.(nm) - RayKinsella1922 SEC - 6/12 14:20:48
     They obviously phucked it up because you're posting. - RayKinsella1922 SEC - 6/12 14:10:52




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