--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > .> ...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.
With all due respect, I sat in on this silly discussion because I *did* live in the deep South back then. And I was getting damned tired of the reverse discrim- ination of idiots who did *not* live there then making statements about what it was like. It's nothing more than "white niggerism," trying to paint a whole society a certain way to match their preconceptions and their belief that they were "superior" because they lived up North. There was a great deal of ignorance and bias in the South in the 1950s, but it has been more than matched by the ignorance and bias shown here today. 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/
