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Marie5656 Forum-Blogger© Original500© Member  Just hanging out
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Just finished watching a program on the History channel. Tom Brokaw looking back on 1968. Geesh..I was 14. There were sure alot of major events that year. Two assassinations, riots, presidential election. We got our AARP magazine in the mail the other day, and it also covered the year extensively. Just wondering what 2008 will look like from a 2048 perspective. Think anyone will care?
 
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Marie5656 wrote: Just finished watching a program on the History channel. Tom Brokaw looking back on 1968. Geesh..I was 14. There were sure alot of major events that year. Two assassinations, riots, presidential election. I doubt it. Most people don't seem to care what happened in 1968. I was 19 in '68, and I remember a lot of the crap that went on. Living in the South, I witnessed a lot of the Civil Rights movement first hand, including a couple of riots that took place. This past Friday, was the anniversary of ML King, Jr., assasination. My grandson was watching it, and talking about it, and I told him everything they were showing on pictures and videos, I saw on TV when a lot of it was happening. I have often discussed the events of those years with him, the assasinations, Viet Nam, civil rights and other things, and he can't comprehend those events. They don't teach this stuff in the schools, they only skim the surface, and it's a shame.
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Marie5656 Forum-Blogger© Original500© Member Just hanging out
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Gee, Mudd..seeing the civil rights movement from the south must have been entirely different than from the north..where I grew up. I will admit, at in 1968, at age 14, I as not as tuned to current events, and civil rights as I am now as an adult. I mean, I grew up in a town where I did not even meet my first Black Person til I was in 7th grade! Do you think we will ever learn from the past?
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muddawber Guardian1000© Member
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Marie5656 wrote: Gee, Mudd..seeing the civil rights movement from the south must have been entirely different than from the north..where I grew up. I will admit, at in 1968, at age 14, I as not as tuned to current events, and civil rights as I am now as an adult. I mean, I grew up in a town where I did not even meet my first Black Person til I was in 7th grade! In a way, I think some people have learned from the past, but then there are those who still cling to the past ways. I think people who were born after the 70s have no real feeling about the 60s and 70s, because they can't grasp the times and how things were then. I grew who in the south during the Jim Crowe laws and segregation. I saw lots of blacks, but they kept to themselves as much as the whites. The town I grew up in, Chickamauga, Ga., I refered to as an Oreo cookie. On the north and south side of town, outside the city limits, were the black communities, with the white inside the city limits, so I always viewed it as an Oreo. Our high school desegregated in 1967, and we had two black students enroll. There were no problems with it as far as the students were concerned, because we knew them, and were already friends before this. A lot of the parents had problems with it because of the mixing, but most of saw it as a changing of the times. Besides, we had more important things to worry about, during that time, a little place called Viet Nam. I was fortunate in a way, in that I didn't have to go, but I had three close friends that I grew up with that went and came home in a body bag. Another thing I witnessed during my childhood, was when riding the bus to Chattanooga, TN. Blacks as you know, had to ride in the back of the bus. Some of the busses had two doors on the side, and the blacks would have to get on and pay their fare, and then get back off and walk to the other door to get on. They weren't allowed to walk past the whites to the back. Some bus drivers were so damned sorry, that when the person would get off to walk to the other door, they would shut the doors and drive off. Another thing I saw was in the department stores, they had water fountains that were marked white and colored. I was about 6 at the time, and in my mind I always wonered what color the water was, and why they had colored water in the first place. It was the same with restrooms, white and colored, if they even bothered to have a restroom for coloreds. Some places wouldn't allow blacks to use the restrooms. One more thing, some of the stores had lunch counters. The blacks were not allowed to sit there and eat. They had to walk up and place their order, and step back until it was filled. Then they had to leave to eat it. I can't remember the year, but at one point a group of black students from the college staged a sit in to protest the fact that they were not allowed to sit at the counter and eat.
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Marie5656 Forum-Blogger© Original500© Member Just hanging out
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   Again, wow. Another reason why I always read your posts. You lived things I only read about. Does not make them right, and I would not have appreciated the segregation in the least. I grew up with a very bigoted set of parents. I had to fight to NOT believe as they did, it always seemed so wrong to me. When I got my college degree in Social work, my dad said that when I got a job I should ask to not be assigned clients who were black or gay. I outright told him no.
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Marie5656 wrote:
My Dad always taught me not to judge by the color, but by the content. The N word was never used in our home. Last edited on 12:17 am by muddawber |
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