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struggle4progress

(118,282 posts) Thu Jun 16, 2016, 03:52 PM Jun 2016

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Confederate flag resolution a historic opportunity to correct the past

By James Merritt
June 15, 2016

... I grew up in the 1950s in the heart of the Deep South, a time many white Christians believe to be a golden age and many black Americans experienced as a kind of dark ages.

I didn’t go to school with anyone except other white kids until I started high school. There was a certain part of town where the “black folks” lived. It was an unspoken “no man’s land” for whites. Churches were totally segregated ...

http://religionnews.com/2016/06/15/confederate-flag-resolution-a-historic-opportunity-to-correct-the-past/

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Confederate flag resolution a historic opportunity to correct the past (Original Post) struggle4progress Jun 2016 OP

And that part of town was not called "where the black folks lived". Sad, very sad. tonyt53 Jun 2016 #1

tonyt53

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1. And that part of town was not called "where the black folks lived". Sad, very sad.

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Thu Jun 16, 2016, 04:21 PM

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