Do you remember... okay, a bunch of you are too young...
By ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (63792)
United States
March 3, 2025 11:59am CST
I was looking at a response to a different one of my discussions and the person that sparked this memory was
Now, I want you to think about, or read history about a series of events that happened in the northern parts, mostly in the New England area, in the early to mid-1970s.
When I was in high school, in fact, as a senior, they tried to close the high school in the mostly black area of town (I live in the southern parts of the U.S.) Instead of getting on the buses, like good little people, they went and stood outside of the closed high school. Yes, a few came to school, but at that high school before the only black student was the son of the only black teacher. This went on for over a week, with the students from the other high school waiting at the other high school. They were forced to reopen it, at least for that year.
I remember hearing how the (white) people in the Northeast were like: Yeah, make those white people accept those black children in their schools. And then, a few years later, they were forced to accept black children into their schools!
If you think those protests in the South were bad... OH MY! There was some white parents against black children.
So, if you think only people in the South are racists, think again... 
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@RasmaSandra (82855)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
20h
I guess my European parents raised me the right way. For a long time I guess I was about 3 years old my favorite doll was a small black baby doll wrapped in a blanket. Why black? I don't know but I loved that doll and my parents smiled every time they saw me hug it. Darn, I wish I could remember what happened to it as I grew up.
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@ElicBxn (63792)
• United States
18h
My parents were from New Jersey. I don't remember anything concerning black people. I think my father was about people of color the same way as politics, it doesn't help anyone to talk about differences. I remember going to a Catholic high school for 2 years and someone there asked why I was 'hanging around' the 'Mexicans.' What? I didn't see them as different, well, different from me except they all had nice hair. I mean, back then straight hair was the thing and girls were IRONING their hair! I had to have my hair long to have some weight to take more of the wave out.
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@FourWalls (71802)
• United States
22h
The great singer/songwriter Randy Newman did a song called “Rednecks.” Superficially, it’s about the southern racism where they’re “too dumb to make it in no northern town” while expressing their hatred of the blacks (the song makes judicious use of the N word, should you go look it up on YouTube be forewarned about that). The last verse, though, points out that the NORTH, which “set the (blacks) free,” in reality invented the ghetto (“free to be put in a cage on the south side of Chicago or the west side…free to be put in a cage in East Saint Louis…”). That’s how many of the “ethnic” neighborhoods in the large cities started: they were forced into one small area, usually a not-good area. I was reading something the other day about the origins of “Chinatown” in San Francisco, which was pretty much the same thing: the whites didn’t want the Chinese in “their” part of town, so the Chinese were confined to a small area.
If you look up the Wikipedia entry on lynchings you’ll see a lot of entries in non-southern states like Delaware, Michigan, Indiana, and New York. Sorry, folks, southerners do not have the market cornered on racial (or any other type) of hatred. It’s been around since Cain killed Abel.
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@ElicBxn (63792)
• United States
18h
Oh, yeah... there was such a showing of hate in Boston...Boston it was unreal! Because the winds mostly blow from west to east, poor people, even poor whites, were forced to live downwind of the factories. Now, in Austin, there used to be an area set aside in west Austin that was where the servants of the rich folks just north of them lived. Now, in Texas there was fewer Irish and the Germans settled in areas for mostly other Germans, Fredericksburg and New Braunfels were such places. Later, in the early 20th century where there was a large Czechs immigration into Texas, they also stayed close together. They did settle in areas already settled, but many were already Catholic so there were less problems. That's where I think the East Enders show in Britain comes from.
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@ElicBxn (63792)
• United States
18h
It was everywhere back then too, you just didn't see it because the 'white' folks didn't have to see a black person, that wasn't a maid, in their neighborhood! I remember in I think middle school (we called it Junior High School back then) a very nice lady of color moved into the neighborhood with her two very well behaved children. She didn't last long. My sister was about her kids age and she said that they were bullied and nobody did anything. She made friends with the older one, who was about her age, maybe a grade behind, but they only lived in the area for like a year.
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@kaylachan (75581)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
23h
You're right. I'm to young. By the time I was of school age, most of that had calmed down quite a bit, but that doesn't mean I dhdn't see rasism on full display. Even today. No matter where you live, you're bound to run into at least one raceist.
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@kaylachan (75581)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
16h
@ElicBxn My school was built back when blacks and whites were seperated, and each had their own everything. When I attended blacks and whites intermengled, but you still saw edivence of it.
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@ElicBxn (63792)
• United States
12h
@kaylachan "Separate but equal" was the ruling, but it never was...
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@DaddyEvil (142459)
• United States
3h
I was still in grade school when that was happening... There were a couple of black students in my school as I grew up. As far as I remember, they weren't treated any differently than any other students. (I was a kid so didn't pay much attention to anyone except my own friends, though.) But their parents were wealthy where the rest of the people in our city definitely weren't.
Edit to add: My dad was definitely a racist. One of my nieces married a black man... Dad told them he wanted to see his granddaughter but to leave the black man and his kids at home. (Dad was the same way with Native Americans and Mexicans, too. And yes, I have nieces and nephews who are Native American and Mexican.)
I also have nieces and nephews who are Japanese. Dad had no problem with them. I have no clue what the difference was.
@wolfgirl569 (112317)
• Marion, Ohio
19h
I don't remember that but it is everywhere
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