A black guy walked up and said, “Give me money to buy a candy bar”!
My father replied, “Why should I give you money”?
The Black guy said, “Cause your ancestors enslaved my ancestors”.
My father said, (and this is a man who championed the Civil Rights movement until they became militant), “My ancestors were out making civilization while yours were still swinging in the trees”.
Now this would never go down today, it is so not P.C.
What impressed me was that my father was an ally of the African-Americans then UNTIL they all became Angela Davis, Stokely Carmichael, the Black Panthers and violent folk...
Today it is worse. If that event had happened today, the Black guy would have shot and killed him on the spot.
Todays black youth do not understand how far blacks have come.
I still remembered colored only entrances and fountains etc.
Not that it was right,
Just that it occured.
Classic!
Thanks for sharing! And yes, your Dad was right.