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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

http://blog.nj.com/ledgerarchives/2009/02/leisure_activities_remained_qu.html

“Wiltse found that blacks and whites routinely swam together in the late 1800s and early 1900s. That changed when the migration of large numbers of rural Southern blacks to Northern states triggered a squeamishness among whites over sharing a pool with them.

The professed concern appeared to involve hygiene, and a notion that poor blacks coming from a farming background would have lower standards of cleanliness. Even in public schools, swimming remained segregated long after all other scholastic activities were integrated.”


100 posted on 02/08/2010 6:44:20 PM PST by bushpilot1
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To: bushpilot1

LOL..they are squirming on their own petard


113 posted on 02/08/2010 8:09:36 PM PST by wardaddy (Book of Eli.....awesome.....Denzel Washington was perfect....Mila Kunis is smoking..nothing PC)
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To: bushpilot1

As a black man once told me, “In the north the white people tell me we are equals but flee from their neighborhoods when a black family moves in and they call me nigger when they think I can’t hear. In the South we live in the same neighborhoods and if somebody doesn’t like me they tell me to my face. But when they say that they don’t like me it seldom has anything to do with my race. I will never live in the north again.”


128 posted on 02/09/2010 6:13:50 AM PST by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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