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It's been an eye opener for me, too, Gary.
It's like the ghost of Bradley's racism haunts us to this day. We need an exoricism!
I've a theory that the predominantly white towns surrounding us resented seeing the black generations mature here, producing lawyers, judges, business leaders, academics, doctors, merchants, and civic leaders. So everytime sin city acted up, they jumped on it, rolling all the city's diversity into an unholy spector of some kind. ( In fact it seems that 'sin' is trotted out whenever one race wants to bad mouth the other.)
To this day, I feel the racists among the surrounding towns - and no I'm not saying all our neighbors are racists - don't want to see Asbury come back as an integrated city. They want to prove their adage that in order to clean up a town you have to gentrify - read segregate - it. I want to see Asbury's people - black and white - hold their heads up high and say HA HA HA - we did it and we did it together!!
Maureen
In a message dated 8/1/2005 9:09:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com writes:
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