--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > did they cook up the story of Al Gore Junior's black Nanny who used > > to travel with the family by car from Tennessee to D.C. and when Al > > Gore Sr. would stop at Whites-only restaurants that the Nanny had to > > stay behind in the car? As she tells it, Jr. felt sorry for her and > > had to bring lunch out to her outside? > > I am not seeking to get in the middle of this debate. However for some > perspective, its amazing how racist, or at least segregated the whole > US was pre-70s. How many went to HS in the 60's that had more than a > few blacks? I did. But it was the only high school that did in very > liberal Marin County. The other 8 or so HS's were lilly white. And in > all of progressive left-coast california, prior to 1966, it was legal > for real-estate agents to refuse to serve clients on the basis of > color. No wonder most areas of CA were segregated. Though I went to a > mixed race HS, ALL the 500 or so blacks lived in a nice "ghetto", > quite physically separated from surrounding white communities. > > I wonder how integrated Shemps HS was in Canada. > > How many in northern cities ate at restaurants with signs that said > "we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone" or some more > elegant wording. I didn't realize until I was in my mid teens that > this was a polite way of saying we probably won't serve blacks. Thus > while the restaurants in liberal progressive california were not > formally segregated, there were no signs that explicitly said "No > Blacks", there was a real, though covert, segregation going on. Was > everyone growing up in that era guilty of racism by going out to > dinner with their parents? > > If this is how it was in liberal progressive northern california, I > can only image how backwards it was in many other parts of the country > in that era. And going each decade back, the 50's (the gore story > era), the 40's etc, it was progressively worse. > > So those that went to an essentially segregated all white HS, did you > protest, did you refuse to to go to HS because no blacks lived in your > school district? Did you protest vehemntly until blacks had the legal > and economic means to move into yur neighborhood, or at least your > school district? Probably not. The point is a lot of people objected > to how things were, but things were the way they were and most lived > their lives as part of that system. Some lived their lives and spent > some time fighting for increased equality, legally, socially and > economically. But they still lived IN the system. Was everyone thus a > racist?
No, of course not and your observations bring a fresh perspective to the debate. But just as those that you describe shouldn't unfairly be labelled as "racists" so also they shouldn't be described as champions of equality either. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
