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2016 Postmortem

angstlessk

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2. I too was extremely prejudiced in the 50's and the 60's

Reply to KentuckyWoman (Original post)

Sat Feb 20, 2016, 01:45 AM

Feb 2016

I am now married to a black man!

Back then I never saw beauty or handsome in a black person...it was how I was supposed to see the world...foreign was even worse....

In the late 50's, (I was about 8 or 9) in our neighborhood was a Japanese woman cutting grass with scissors, and (being just after the war in which both our fathers fought) we thought how bizarre are the 'Japs'

Can you imagine your wife cutting your grass with scissors to keep YOUR yard neat?

I did not think of that then.

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I honestly don't care what they did 40-50 years ago. [View all] KentuckyWoman Feb 2016 OP

For politicians that is called bona fides nadinbrzezinski Feb 2016 #1

I can totally agree with you on this. KentuckyWoman Feb 2016 #4

Hey I am one of the now thousands who have been blocked by Capehart nadinbrzezinski Feb 2016 #7

I too was extremely prejudiced in the 50's and the 60's angstlessk Feb 2016 #2

Do you care what "they" did 10-20 years ago? dchill Feb 2016 #3

How far do you suppose someone has come who wasn't so prejudiced back then? Fumesucker Feb 2016 #5

I wore a black arm band on Moratorium Day. I was 8./nt DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2016 #6