Posted on 11/05/2015 5:47:06 PM PST by TigerClaws
I'm a year younger than him and only saw such signs on the news back when Wallace was making his legacy.
I was raised in Rochester NY - no "Whites Only" signs but that didn't stop some of the race riots from reaching into some of our budding "Black Lives Matter" activists....
I was drinking from water fountains before ‘64. Never saw a segregated one in Texas. Detroit and those ever so enlightened northern cities must have been more racist than redneck cities of the south.
I grew up in New York City. You must have heard of the riots from forced bussing and forced union membership in New York and Boston back in the 60’s. No?
There were no "segregated schools", it was just that blacks mostly lived in their neighborhoods and whites mostly in theirs. It was all the do gooders who stirred that ugly pot. It was a disaster.
I was going to have to go to three different high schools before they'd let me attend the high school half a block from my house. Eighth grade, they bussed in blacks to our school on big city busses because there weren't enough school busses for the job. The black kids hated it (who wouldn't hate being yanked out of your school and away from your friends). The white kids were more accepting. The blacks started causing problems so the black principal (really good guy who tried) cracked down on it. He had big metal gates installed in the hallways that would be locked so no one could roam the halls between class periods. He'd also lock us inside our classrooms. Yes, fire codes now days wouldn't allow that. This was a huge 3 story building so guess we were lucky there wasn't a fire. I was accosted in class one day and in the stairwell another time. You couldn't take off your jacket or lay down your pencil or it'd be stolen. My family packed up and got the heck outta Dallas that summer. Many, many white families moved in what was called the white flight.
Sadly, what was once a nice upper middle class neighborhood is now somewhere you don't want to have car trouble in in broad daylight. If there is any diversity at my old school today, I don't see it. There was MORE diversity before the bussing. All I see today are black students so that social experiment was a major failure. And Dallas lost the tax base in that neighborhood.
Again, that was the “enlightened” NYC and Boston.
Northern cities were not much different. I know New York because I grew up there. De facto segregation was rampant and enforced by street justice and injustice. I know because I was in some of those fights defending “turf”.
Yes. That is myth. No question. It is still myth. De facto segregation is still the rule rather than the exception in urban America.
There were segregated bathrooms in the south into the 60s. I lived in Selma Alabama in 1965-66. It was not a happy place. My Dad was military, and we could not get service in a store or restaurant because the military was associated with the federal government. We bought things from the BX & Commissary, and ordered them thru Sears, or bought them in Florida on vacations.
No, there were not........
Schools were segregated only because of the large numbers of blacks in those school districts...it wasn't forced.
In fact, I think it was in 1967 when Detroit schools started forced busing of black students into predominately white schools, my school was one of them.
It was nothing more than costly social engineering that was a complete bust and neither race wanted anything to do with it...........
During my 35 years at my plant on Detroit's east side, I met many older blacks who had come from the south in the 60's looking for jobs in the auto industry and they told me about the forced segregation they experienced back home..........
I never saw them in Monkey Ward in Dallas.
Even just READING it, Monty Python cracks me up.
Only HALF a cup of gravel for breakfast, and ours was served cold, rofl.
Didn't work. A dusky beauty from the Islands is my favored companion today. And she can cook!
/johnny
I’ve been contacted by people who claimed to be pollsters for one cause/candidate or another, but who knows who they really are? They could be legit, but there’s no way to tell if they’re from a professional polling company, or scammers trying to get you personal information!
I just hang up on them.
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