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In reply to the discussion: The Guardian nails it: White working class votes for white supremacists. Period. [View all]electric_blue68
(27,865 posts)out as events unfolded in The '60s.
Like, I obviously knew the assassination of JFK was horrific on general principles; but it'd be some more years before I began to understand what we'd lost. You at 13 might have grasped more back then than I.
But by the time I was 15 in1968; I knew what the losses of Dr King and Bobby meant!
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I'm an ex-Catholic. I grew up in a 70%, then later a 60%Jewish neighborhood in NYC. From Conservative, maybe Refom, and also Secular but Cultural. So I picked up a bit of phrases, definitely had some typical Eastern European Jewish foods.The 8 days Hanukkah vs 1 dayChrstmas 😄 .Funny, I never picked up on it.
The best thing were the High Holy Days in my first nabe; bc in grade school particularly 5th & 6th grade with 70% of the class out - we couldn't have a regular school day! 😄
I also had some Puerto Rican acquaintances so I got a bit of that cultural info. Mostly the rest Irish, some Greek, English?. I'm half 2nd Gen Ukrainian-American, too.