I was born in the 1950s South. I remember the race issues of that time well. I fear that we are going back to that time. It seems that beginning with Obama, America started to shift. Back then, it was white-on-black violence. Today it is the other way around. I am being brutally honest here, I cannot remember very much white-on-black violence around here. Mostly, it is black on black or black on white. If this continues to fester, it is not going to be pretty. Whites would start to return the violence. Sad what America is morphing into. We are becoming Europe. 50% of the Republic is for the Republic, and the other half wants to destroy the Republic as founded. That ain’t good. I am glad that I am on the last miles of my life. I do not want to witness what is coming. Just saying.
I was born in the 1950s South as well.
Just outside of Oxford and Ole Miss. I remember seeing the convoys of National Guard troops headed there. The school I went to was segregated, whites only. Blacks had their own school 12 miles away.
The small town I grew up in was an agricultural community, and cotton was the major crop. This was before the cotton picking machines became commonplace. People picked cotton by hand in huge long sacks that you dragged behind you. Black and white alike.
One summer I picked cucumbers to earn spending money, I was 12 or 13 at the time. Black kids and white kids and adults all did the same, got paid the same, 75 cents a bushel................