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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“A specter of Jackie Robinson” haunts the city of 53,000 people to this day, said Lamb. “People want to forget it and it shouldn't be forgotten.”
I have lived in Sanford for 25 years and this is the first time that I have heard of this. I am pretty sure that it has been forgotten.
28 posted on 04/08/2012 5:45:26 PM PDT by WWTraveler
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To: WWTraveler

How many current residents were even born in 1946, much less full-grown adults?


29 posted on 04/08/2012 5:52:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Ich habe keinen Konig aber Gott)
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To: WWTraveler

My grandparents lived there for close to 40 years and I don’t remember hearing of any racial unrest.


30 posted on 04/08/2012 5:59:16 PM PDT by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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To: WWTraveler
"I am pretty sure that it has been forgotten."

With the exception of the "professional victim class" who never pass up a chance to be outraged.

with a special shout out to... Al, Jesse and the other usual suspects....

31 posted on 04/08/2012 7:02:44 PM PDT by SERE_DOC ( “The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.” TJ.)
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