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Well I'm slightly older and have never seen the country so divided, period.
Well, this nation has seen things like riots and civil unrest before. In fact, on my last post, I posted links about it. Since when has there never been such racial division?
Well, this nation has seen things like riots and civil unrest before. In fact, on my last post, I posted links about it. Since when has there never been such racial division?
Has it been more divided? Obviously the civil war was. Recently? I doubt it
Get off the internet, the last haven for racists, and try real life for a change. I have seen no increased racial tension in real life.
That is always good advice. The internet, with forums such as this, tend to show the worse side of human nature, or to make out certain issues as being 'the worse ever!"
As for the OP: I'm 59 and I well recall the 'white only' parts of restaurants, buses, water fountains, laws against marriage between the races (or even 'intimate relationships) and the rest. It was not unusual to hear white men call an elderly black man 'boy' (which was being polite, for that time). My parents brought me up to treat all people the same, and to hold nothing but contempt for those who abused or denigrated others based on the color of their skin. By gawd, I saw a bit of such behavior, and Fort Worth was (and is) rather tolerant in that regard. We did not have problems, for instance, during the late 1960s.
I will note that, as a teenage youth, my friends and I could sneak out of our houses late at night, and wander the streets, with the police never even asking us what we were up to. If one had dark skin, especially in my neck of the woods, then you would be questioned. It was just a fact of life back then, and I guess still holds true in many parts of this country.
I will also note that many people seem to believe that NOW is the worse time of US history, solely based on the fact that they are alive NOW. Believe me, people who lived through the Great Depression and WWII, also thought that the country was falling apart: with more of a basis for such thought, in my opinion. Yet, the country managed to keep on going.
It's not that way here in the Indy metro. Certain areas of the metro are black, others white, and I think race relations are much more strained here than when I lived in SC a few years ago. It's more integrated in the South.
Where did you live in South Carolina?
And I live in Georgia. There is more to things than meets the eye. After that Confederate flag issue, things started to get crazy in some places.
One thing I do know is that someone of the worst cities for interracial dating/couples are in the South.
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