White Fragility Digest #1: 13 May 2018

[mountain grammy]

19. Not the least bit unbelievable

and that's what makes it worse. It's common and becoming more common. This is what people voted for, the right to be openly racist, because they feel somehow entitled to do that.

When America was "great," black people couldn't try on clothes and couldn't return anything that didn't fit. My sister was a skilled seamstress who made most of her clothes because we were poor. She belonged to the sewing club in high school and most club members were black girls who also made their own clothes, but most did it because of how they were treated in department stores. In the south, it was the LAW that blacks couldn't try on clothes, but when my sister started sewing in the early 60's, we lived in Hartford, Connecticut where the unwritten rules also applied.

Whenever anyone talks about the so called "race riots" in Hartford in the 60's, I just say, well, you weren't there.

We are moving backward by leaps and bounds, mainly because so many Americans really don't have any 'common sense or decency.'