"There were racial fights going on in Newark when my dad was a kid and Jersey City where my mom was a kid. This is NOTHING NEW. They shut down the high school for nearly a week when my aunt was there due to racial violence and that was in 1970."
Isn't the difference that back then, we were in the middle of the heat of the 'civil rights movement?'
Errh, I thought that was circa 1959-1968.