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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 151242" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>It was just "different" back then. I graduated from high school in 1964 and I <em>never</em> went to school with black children. When I was in elementary school in the north, there were no blacks in our school because there were no blacks in our neighborhood. The neighborhoods themselves were very sharply divided. I grew up in a very large city - the blacks lived more in the heart of the city, the whites in the suburbs. Not that we lived in a fancy, exclusive neighborhood because we didn't - very far from it. When I was very young, the only time we even saw black people was when we went downtown to shop! It was so different then ... no big apartment complexes with their diversity of tenants. It just wasn't done back then. </p><p> </p><p>When we moved to Florida, we still went to an all white school because the little town where we lived was all white. This was before a lot of the civil rights laws were in force. There was another slightly larger town a few miles away that had quite a few blacks living there - but they had a black elementary school and a white elementary school, and seperate black and white high schools. Integration didn't come until a few years later.</p><p> </p><p>I can see such a huge difference in the world I grew up in and the one my children grew up in! I hate to say this but sometimes I think it won't really get better until all the "old timers" are dead and gone! My mother was a good Christian woman and would never have consider herself to be a racist. But she had never even personally <em>known</em> a black person! I vividly remember her telling me when I was a very small child that I should never get anywhere near a black person because they all carried knives! That's what she had been taught by her parents, she believed it, and she thought she was protecting me! She believed what she had been taught out of ignorance and fear and she believed it until the day she died! That's what I meant by "how far we have come".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 151242, member: 1883"] It was just "different" back then. I graduated from high school in 1964 and I [I]never[/I] went to school with black children. When I was in elementary school in the north, there were no blacks in our school because there were no blacks in our neighborhood. The neighborhoods themselves were very sharply divided. I grew up in a very large city - the blacks lived more in the heart of the city, the whites in the suburbs. Not that we lived in a fancy, exclusive neighborhood because we didn't - very far from it. When I was very young, the only time we even saw black people was when we went downtown to shop! It was so different then ... no big apartment complexes with their diversity of tenants. It just wasn't done back then. When we moved to Florida, we still went to an all white school because the little town where we lived was all white. This was before a lot of the civil rights laws were in force. There was another slightly larger town a few miles away that had quite a few blacks living there - but they had a black elementary school and a white elementary school, and seperate black and white high schools. Integration didn't come until a few years later. I can see such a huge difference in the world I grew up in and the one my children grew up in! I hate to say this but sometimes I think it won't really get better until all the "old timers" are dead and gone! My mother was a good Christian woman and would never have consider herself to be a racist. But she had never even personally [I]known[/I] a black person! I vividly remember her telling me when I was a very small child that I should never get anywhere near a black person because they all carried knives! That's what she had been taught by her parents, she believed it, and she thought she was protecting me! She believed what she had been taught out of ignorance and fear and she believed it until the day she died! That's what I meant by "how far we have come". [/QUOTE]
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