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jaysunb

(11,856 posts)

9. I lived in Brooklyn back in the 60's and Staten Island

Reply to awoke_in_2003 (Reply #8)

Sun Dec 7, 2014, 01:30 AM

Dec 2014

was what was then called a "bedroom community." Blue collar union workers, ethnic Italian and very prejudiced.----Notice that I didn't refer to them as "racist's ", there's a big,big difference.-- If it's still that way, I can understand how this came to be. Unacceptable, but understood.