1971 sign from NC county

[kpete]

https://www.journalnow.com/news/local/howler-yearbook-billboard-photo/article_12abe826-2cd5-11e9-b997-db66a29b7463.html
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/trump-invokes-kkk-slogan-love-it-or-leave-it-at-north-carolina-rally

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. expect those to return

[Bettie]

2. The more things change....

well you know the rest of it.

[Jersey Devil]

3. I live near Smithfield and have not seen that kind of thing

I live in Goldsboro nearby for the past 3 years, having moved from New Jersey. I honestly have not seen any outward acts of racism since I have been here. My neighborhood is integrated and I have not seen anything other than polite and respectful exchanges between white and black people since I moved here. To be honest, I saw and heard more overt racism in New Jersey than here in North Carolina. I don't know - maybe it is just silent, but I was pleasantly surprised.

[TreasonousBastard]

16. Back in the '60s, an extraordinary black woman who worked for us announced she was...

moving back down South. Carolinas, I think.

"Bad as it is down there, at least they're honest about it, and I know where we stand."

[malaise]

4. Help fight communism and integration

WTF?

[no_hypocrisy]

5. The fear of integration was/is more than having a black neighbor.

What scares the bejeezus out of folks like this is that their children will learn to like and value others who aren't white. Maybe marry one. Maybe having children with them. Mixing your blood with theirs. Your family is now no longer pure white. That's what makes their heads explode.

[malaise]

6. Funny how when they're lying in a hospital bed needing blood or an organ

They have no problem with said integration.

[redstatebluegirl]

10. I worked in a hospital back in the 70's when I was an undergrad.

One night there was a horrible car accident, a man was brought in who was in grave condition. He got his first blood transfusion right after he arrived. Shortly after that his wife arrived and made a huge scene about making sure that blood was "white". I had to deal with her and I told her "no it is red, everyone's blood is red". She lost it, we had to have security contain her because she was trying to keep them from hanging another unit of blood in the ER screaming we were giving him the wrong blood. This was in Illinois by the way.

[malaise]

11. OMFG

Damn!! Better dead than black blood - ah well.

[redstatebluegirl]

12. I remember this so clearly even after all these years.

All of us working in the ER that night were just unnerved by the whole thing. Sad thing is he later died from his injuries, he had 3 young children as I remember.

[malaise]

13. That would stay with me forever

[no_hypocrisy]

14. Up to the Eighties, there were still "pockets of resistance" portrayed in the media.

1. That scene in Brian's Song where Piccolo teased Sayers for donating his blood to save him, telling him that he suddenly had a penchant for hog jowls.

2. All in the Family where Archie was adamant about only receiving "white" blood.

[bullwinkle428]

7. Explains the use of "socialism" as a catch-all - integration is just below the surface.

[iamateacher]

8. I remember that sign

My boyfriend mooned it. Early 1970's.

[Dave in VA]

9. I Remember it too...

It was on the route that I took from college to home and back. There was also one that said, "Get the US out of the UN."

Also, I remember, as a child, the whites only signs, the white drinking fountain and the colored one beside it. Arguing with my mother to let me drink from the colored one because I was bored with the white water.

I remember the local publicly owned hospital sign that said, "Dogs, sailors and n*****s keep off the grass"

I remember the local schools shutting down and students missing an entire year of school instead of allowing non-white students to attend.

I remember my cousin having to go to another state to get married because Virginia would not allow her to marry a Philippino man.

I remember the poll tax, real estate "red lining", sitting in a car dealship and the salesmen arguing about who would have to go out and tell those n*****s to get the hell off their lot.

So, yeah, don't think it can't happen here, because it already has and can again.

[TreasonousBastard]

17. "...bored with the white water." Excellent!

[Hoyt]

15. Saw similar signs growing up. Now, I see confederate flags, Three Percenter decals, Don'tTreadon Me

and of course MAGA hats and other signs of trump love.