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You wouldn't have been happy had you lived a thousand years ago? Why?
As FirebirdCamaro said, I'm African-American. I think you know why I wouldn't have wanted to live in any time period before 1970. Don't play obtuse with me.
Green mariner is African American, so take a wild guess....
Well in 1974 Muhammad Ali had just returned to the US from Zaire where he defeated George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle boxing match responded to the reporter inquiring about his thoughts on Africa. "Thank god my granddaddy got on that boat."
Well in 1974 Muhammad Ali had just returned to the US from Zaire where he defeated George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle boxing match responded to the reporter inquiring about his thoughts on Africa. "Thank god my granddaddy got on that boat."
In 1974, not 1964. Again, I'm glad I was born in the 1980s. I would not want to live in any time period before 1970. Change my mind.
And Muhammad Ali was a racial separatist. I am not a racial separatist.
The problem is that all large families I know of are rather on the well off side. In the American scheme of things all those well off kids require multitude of lower income peons to maintain their status. Maintaining social status of your patents is an American norm. Just look at the cabal of freeloaders Trump sired and imagine all those lower income people required to serve them.
In 1974, not 1964. Again, I'm glad I was born in the 1980s. I would not want to live in any time period before 1970. Change my mind.
I don't see what being black has to do with it. My mother lived in an all white rural town as child in the 1930s. There was a black couple that lived close by whose house was as nice or nicer as everyone else's and were as well off as the rest of the white families. She hung out and played at their house all the time.
I don't see what being black has to do with it. My mother lived in an all white rural town as child in the 1930s. There was a black couple that lived close by whose house was as nice or nicer as everyone else's and were as well off as the rest of the white families. She hung out and played at their house all the time.
Being Black has everything to do with. Regardless of what your mother said, what she saw doesn't mirror what most Blacks went through during those times. Your mother's experience is an anomaly.
Being Black has everything to do with. Regardless of what your mother said, what she saw doesn't mirror what most Blacks went through during those times. Your mother's experience is an anomaly.
It's not an anomaly but typical of free states in the region since the early 1800s at statehood.
It's not an anomaly but typical of free states in the region since the early 1800s at statehood.
For every one of your mother's stories, there are far more stories of towns banning Blacks from living there, neighborhoods where Blacks were not allowed to live in, by law. And this happened in the free states too. Plenty of sundown laws and restrictive covenants legally preventing Blacks from buying homes in certain neighborhoods and certain towns. Places where Blacks were often refused service because "no Blacks allowed".
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