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Originally Posted by Golfingnut
Our generation is, or at least was, for the most part, racist! It would have been easier for Paula to say, Like most of my friends and family, I was, but I am trying to be more accepting of all people. Trying to lie to in an attempt to alter the TRUTH about your own past is silly.
I was a bigot in the 50's and 60's, entered the Army in 1966 and started questioning my own beliefs. By the 80's I recognized how wrong I was and changed my views and began to voice my opinion about this terible social issue. I now will not tolerate bigotry from friends nor family.
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I can totally relate to your first paragraph.
However, not all families were racist back in the 1950's into say 1962, etc.
My parents were both factory workers (from the World War Two era) who worked along side folks from all races and ethnic backgrounds.....and called many their friends. I still remember helping my mom wrap Christmas presents for some........
I went to a public school and had friends of all races......in Newark, N.J.
This would be circa the 1950's to 1962.
Hubby, however, went to an all Polish Catholic School and didn't experience the type of diversity that I did.......even though we lived around the corner from each other in a predominately German neighborhood.
His family reacted quite strongly during the Newark riots of the '60s...
When I was planning my 1965 wedding, I so wanted to invite a fellow secretary who was the loveliest young mom from North Carolina, two young beautiful boys (pre schoolers) whom she'd share stories of each morning before work began...........but at the time, there was an "unspoken" thing......and I knew that I shouldn't invite her. I still regret it.
Many moons later, my daughter invited her Boston friends to her Vermont wedding, without nary a thought as to if she would offend any family member.......and the guests were lovely folks.
The younger generation today have made the entire world a smaller place.
However, that said..............I still say there is reverse discrimination when "stuff" is done to us......