--- TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Name a restaurant along that car drive that both > races could have > > > eaten at without making headlines... > > > > I'm no historian -- and I am too young to have > been in the South in > > the '50s to know from personal experience -- but I > remember seeing a > > Discovery or PBS show on segregation several years > ago that > > suggested that it wasn't all that cut and dry as > our stereotype of > > it makes it out to be. There were towns in the > south that were > > fully integrated and lunch counters where all > could eat without > > discrimination...that's why the ones that WERE > segregated had signs > > saying "no colored's" or something to that > effect...if they were ALL > > segregated, there wouldn't be a need for signs... > > This is correct. Also, almost all restaurants along > major > highways (there were no Interstates in those days) > were > integated, for obvious reasons. > > The attempt to portray the South as if it were full > of segre- > gated restaurants, as if that was the norm, is on > the same > level as white people saying that all black people > did in > the South at that time was sit around and eat > watermelon > and tapdance. > > In both cases, it's ignorant people trying to > project *their* > biased stereotypes onto a society that was far more > varied > and far more complex than their simplistic minds can > handle. > > When this reverse discrimination is done just to win > a silly > argument and prove one's out-of-control ego "right," > it's > almost more offensive than when it's done out of > true hatred. This exchange is starting to take a hard turn because nobody is either an expert on the topic or they did not live back then in the deep south. One thing is true, and that is that history is re-visionist. What we say happened "back then" is not necessarily so. > > > > > > > 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 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com 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/
