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.

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.

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)

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...

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.

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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I was. It wasn't any better than this. In fact, it was shee-it-all worse for about 10% of the USA.

Like Voltaire said.

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Sorry, not as edumacated as you and had to google it.

Here's a list of quotes. Which did you mean?

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Voltaire

I'm not sure I agree. When I was 12 (in 1987) they lectured us that French kissing would spread HIV, and there was no internet to speak of (Compuserve, anyone?). But sex and drugs definitely happened, and this was an upper-middle class community. I offer no explanation of this, nor a partisan viewpoint on why everyone is so sex-obsessed (or uptight, for that matter)...

Bone--I hooked the tail end of it and I will say one thing--It was GREAT:D .

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.