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ananda

(28,779 posts)
4. Oh that's right.
Tue Oct 13, 2020, 01:48 PM
Oct 2020

I remember the poll tax collector coming to our house
and my dad would give him $2.

I also remember Jim Crow vividly, the separate restrooms,
water fountains where the white one worked and the black
one was broken, cleaners, black maids in white uniforms
sitting in the back of the bus, etc.

It was such a different world back then.

I was hoping it would be better by now, but now it's all
so violent and ugly, only people want to go back even
further than Jim Crow, practically back to the Middle
Ages when they had chastity belts and women were all
chattel in some form or other.

I just want this nightmare to end.

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