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10. I remember them, and all of the controversy around them.

Reply to pinboy3niner (Reply #7)

Mon Jun 27, 2016, 05:57 PM

Jun 2016

It's funny how things that start innocently enough (the names of the two founders) can devolve. There wasn't really a lot of thought going on there, it seems, once they decided to embrace the book.

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The gut-wrenching history of black babies and alligators [View all] qnr Jun 2016 OP

what an awful graphic. k&r uppityperson Jun 2016 #1

Whoa! yourpaljoey Jun 2016 #2

Loathsome.nt clarice Jun 2016 #3

I can remember hearing about that over 50 years ago when I was young. In_The_Wind Jun 2016 #4

Yeah, it was about that long ago for me, too n/t qnr Jun 2016 #5

I had never heard of this horrific act etherealtruth Jun 2016 #6

Never heard of it, but we had a Sambo's restaurant for a while pinboy3niner Jun 2016 #7

Was that down by the beach? intrepidity Jun 2016 #9

This one was in the San Fernando Valley near Monroe High School, mid-'60s. nt pinboy3niner Jun 2016 #11

I remember them, and all of the controversy around them. qnr Jun 2016 #10

The article links to this practice in the Bronx Zoo 40 years after the 13th Amendment. rug Jun 2016 #8

I know, it's very disturbing. qnr Jun 2016 #14

OMG! brer cat Jun 2016 #12

Yeah - I think the thing that makes it worse was that people made light of it. n/t qnr Jun 2016 #16

Rare, but horrible. Igel Jun 2016 #13

Whether it actually happened or not (and it did, in some instances) the fact that qnr Jun 2016 #15