Posted on 06/06/2018 4:35:20 AM PDT by simpson96
THEY WERE
Until LBJ’s “Great Society” ruined families.
Until I lived near the ‘hood, I thought that all black people were friendly and normal, if disadvantaged historically.
I was as naive as Oprah.
LOL, yep.
Bill Clinton was like Eddie Haskell.
Big difference between next to a Country Club in San Jose in the 80’s, and Wilmington DE in the 90’s.
What’s the dirtiest thing said on tv?
“Ward, you were a little hard on the beaver last night...”
She had a stereotype that she would cling to, I guess.
I went in on an amazingly cheap house in Boston, on the Dorchester/Roxbury line in oh... 1968 or so. It was cheap for a reason.
There were some great people there, but enough truly dangerous, uncontrolled ones that it was unliveable for a white person.
We abandoned it after a few months, which wasn’t much of a hit since buying it only cost a couple of months rent somewhere else.
>>Question: “I think you captured people’s minds by talking about issues that people weren’t talking about on television — race and sexual abuse.”
Phil Donahue, anyone?
Same time slot even.
Aunt Jemima isn’t running for anything except the refrigerator.
OMG, yeah, back then, that was a tough, dangerous place, on the Dorchester/Roxbury line.
For sure.
Actually, Oprah, we WERE!! That is until the 60’s where EVERYTHING was turned upside down!
Between Blue Hill Avenue and Dudley Street, maybe 10 blocks from the Dudley Station.
It got a lot worse after I was there, I heard. I think things have improved somewhat in recent years.
And, I thought all black people were like George “Kingfish” Stevens, Sapphire and Andy Brown.
I has improved a lot. Back in the early Seventies, that was a very rough place, I know that for a fact!
I still wouldn’t venture into Roxbury for anything at all, but there are parts of Dorchester that are reasonably safe.
I took the Red Line one time years ago and not paying attention, ended up in Mattapan.
That was a very bad place to find myself in. And I am not kidding, I feared for my safety.
I couldn’t believe how stupid I had been, not paying attention. Mattapan is somewhere you didn’t want to be in those days. I don’t know if it has changed, but I doubt it.
All black people aren’t like Mr. Huxtable on The Cosby Show?
Maxine Waters is like Algonquin J. Calhoun.
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