Posted on 05/25/2021 10:12:24 AM PDT by Kaslin
My elementary school was White until 68, when a black family moved into a new subdivision in my neighborhood. I befriended him at school. Some kids said his family couldn’t own the house and it was financed by the government, I didn’t care as he was my friend - and my friend’s friend. Once, I asked him what his dad did and he told me that he was the VP of one of Hartford’s insurance companies. My parents told me that they (my friend’s parents) could afford their house.
This kid came over to the house once with my sister and a gaggle of her friends. That was some high-level high school clique-dom, do I don’t think any students had a problem with him. One day, a rumor spread so fast that it was probably true, that the teacher in question looked at him and said “Get your black ass out of my classroom.” He was kind of a cliche joke of an anachronistic cracker before that happened, so nobody was really too shocked.
Hopefully, the whole history, including the Democrat party's involvement.
Maybe the Democrats can find a large stone outcropping somewhere in Georgia and have a large statue of William Tecumseh Sherman carved out of it...to present the other side.
It was just a general remark to all, not about a specific comment by you.
Locally here a group of loudmouths was complaining about the school dress code to the point it made national news. See, it seems that 78% of the offenders were girls. Obviously sexist. Anyway, the superintendent, the dope, rather than saying the rules are the rules has a meeting to water down the code today. After the meeting, cries were it was NOT ENOUGH. So, my thought would be if I were he: going forth will be a designated uniform. But that is me.
Having gone to school in the 60s when dress codes were pushed back to just ware what you like, the power at the schools shifted to the students from the administration and it has been down hill ever since.
It can’t be removed because of Georgia law AND its on private property.
I call that Food of the Gods.
My grandmother (from Virginia) made those sandwiches and I long for them. She never put bread & butter pickles on them though, but they were available from a jar always on the table. The soft white bread that would keep your fingerprints...nothing like it today...bacon was better too - of course you saved the fat from the frying pan.
She also made the best potato salad ever - with sliced hard boiled eggs, the way I like it to this day. The potatoes were soaked overnight in French dressing. All homemade, of course.
Tea was eventually sweetened with artificial sweetener - b/c diabetes in my family. I hated it - that’s how I learned to drink unsweetened tea.
Yes, b&b pickles on the side, not on the sandwich; would make it too soggy. I (Virginia) ate my mother’s (Alabama) Southern cooking growing up, though as an Army wife, she broadened the menu over time. We often would visit my great aunt (Georgia) in the summers, and there was the benefit of the best Southern fare, including homemade pimento cheese, black eyed peas, giant & tender homegrown tomatoes, white sweet corn on the cob, and fried okra. My mother’s corn pone was tops, though.🙂
Plus it’s very huge and would be impossible to tear down
Don't give em any ideas
Plus we will never let it be torn down. 😏
When our children were growing up, we took a picnic every 4th of July to Stone Mountain for the laser light show and fireworks. The crowd would join in to sing Proud to be an American. And Elvis singing Dixie/Battle Hymn of the Republic. Beautiful! Great times! Phooey on political correctness! I’m proud to be American and Southern!
Great pic.
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