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Feeling fortunate to live in this era...
This thought has always occured to me and surfaced once again this week, when Rosa Parks passed.
Have any of you ever thought what is must have felt like to be a black person in that era and before? My thoughts run deep and I really don't have time(slow typist) to post them all here, buy I'll try. To be subjugated constantly, with no hope, day after day, year after year, by ignorant *********s... wow! The courage it must have taken for a black person to stand up to a group of whites, never mind a single one,...big brass balls. Or how it must have felt for Jackie Robinson, to play and play well, thru all the insults from fans, ostracism from teamates, objects being hurled at you. Another wow! The whole separate bathrooms, drinking fountains, etc.... Can it be only 50 years ago? Now that I bring this up. Was Canada further along than the US when it came to race relations? I remember that they used to allow black fighter pilots before the US did. Were they more racially understanding? Just some random thoughts floating thru my head. This thought often comes to me, not only relating to black Americans but Jews during WWII and before. I just happen to be more in touch with the US issues. I did go to the holocaust memorial/museum in DC and that was heartwrenching. Feeling very fortunate to live in these times.
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Funny you mention this... my coworker and I were just talking the other day about the "good old days." She mentioned that she wished she'd been born 50 years earlier. I thought about that and suggested some folks might feel a little differently.
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I wish I was 10-20 years older.....I would have been old enough to enjoy the free love thing rather than having a vauge memory of the era (due to being young not stoned)
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Hey Plantman! Didn't you know? As Jimmie Walker quipped in one of his comedy routines..."there WERE NO BLACK people in the fifties!"
I always wondered why I never saw any in the "Happy Days" sitcom..seriously, there were at least two that featured blacks...
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30-40 years ago the only stuff you would catch they had a cure for........today you are playing russian roulette with a couple rounds in the chamber.
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Proud owner of .... 1971 280SE W108 1979 300SD W116 1983 300D W123 1975 Ironhead Sportster chopper 1987 GMC 3/4 ton 4X4 Diesel 1989 Honda Civic (Heavily modified) --------------------- Section 609 MVAC Certified --------------------- "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche |
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My mom always wanted to be born in the cowboy era. I never figured that out.
I like living hee, now. The grass is always greener on the other side until you get there.
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Like Voltaire said. Bot |
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Here's a list of quotes. Which did you mean? http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Voltaire
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Racial issues aside, it must have been amazing to be alive around 1900.
We tend to think that the world is changing more rapidly now, than ever before... but to see the changover to cars and electricity had to be a real shocker. |
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