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1964 is the cutoff according to the US Census Bureau. That's always what I heard growing up as well. I was born in 1962. I'm not saying that there aren't marked differences between those born in 1945 and 1964 but still - that's the BBer generation officially, so there you have it.
Like I said, I was born in 1962. My brother was born in 1972. I have much more in common actually with BBers that I know, than with my brother and his peers. There was such a marked difference in our experiences growing up that often he seems more like my child or a much younger cousin than like a sibling. Seems like a completely different generation.
I have to wonder if your experience had something to do with being in rural Georgia in addition to the year, because I grew up in a suburb of Atlanta and although I am a few years older than you I remember that as a much more ambiguous time than what you described.
There was no singing and celebrating segregation in the schools in my area. Most parents(probably on both sides)were concerned about their children having to get up at 5 am to be bussed across town to segregate schools. I don't know how valid that concern was and actually think it may have happened more frequently in northern states.
Anyhow, we were told "Don't bother them and they wont bother you."
The reality was that in 1969 my elementary school was integrated with 1 black child. And, the next year when I went to high school there were more, but not a lot. And there was little to no interaction between the two groups. The high school actually began declining as white parents were able to afford to take their kids out and send them to private schools. Absent community support the high school closed was closed a few years ago.
Our families were not socializing with black families and it had not even become fashionable to say you weren't prejudiced because you had a black "friend" from work or somewhere else.
In fact, the neighborhood I lived in had a restriction on for sale signs on properties expressly for keeping black families out. People sold word of mouth to keep the neighborhood white.
The only black people I knew up close and personal were the ones I saw when I visited my Grandparents in rural SC. But, again that was ambiguous. They were housekeepers or handymen or landscaping help. But, the housekeeper ate lunch at the same table with us and when she had to bring her children we played together as there were no other children around for miles. When one of them died, my Grandmother went to the funeral home viewings to "pay her respects" Knowing what I know now, my guess is these black people were either descendants of the slaves my own family or other families in the area owned. In other words, their lives had been entertwined for many years and their was a symbiotic relationship born of necessity on both sides.
Still it was very clear that we were not of the same social class. In fact, my Grandmother and my father both used the N word frequently until at least we began admonishing my father for using it. We would not have been allowed to admonish my grandmother.
I suspect that most baby boomers especially of southern origins experience was more like mine than yours.
Looks like EWU is not renewing her Adjunct contract for another Semester. She's been an Adjunct out at EWU since 2010, her profile incorrectly (i.e. another lie stated she was a "Professor"). School has taken her profile down.
Okay, up until this point, I was laughing at all of her "victimized by the MAN" stories, but faking cancer isn't cool.
She's taking the "empathy" thing a bit too far now.
Well, she's WHITE, so she'll be making millions from this now and can go back to suburban white mom status.
Believe it or not, there are many urban blogs calling her a "double agent" mocking the culture, but I don't believe that. A part of me really believes she wishes she was black. Not a crime, but her way of going about it was....doing too much.
I agree. I think she really hates that she is white. Truly hates being white which is probably why she tried to pull this charade. I also believe she wanted to help the black cause but went about it in a terrible way.
did anyone see the news that her white older Professor brother is alleged to have molested a child,and the parents are getting back at Rachel for believing the victim?
Anyone see this? So evidently she didn't tell Howard University she was black. She sued them for racial discrimination. I can only assume she identified as white then.
She's a nut job. BUT I DO wonder what she did to make her parents "out" her. Strange family.
Maybe they didn't take kindly to her wild stories of them beating her with a baboon whip?
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