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Originally Posted by billethkid
In my opinion one cannot look at how they lived, in the time they lived, doing and believing what were the acceptable norm of the day.....then look back and measure and define yesterday by today's standards.
The standards of today (of our children) are very, VERY much different than those of their parents or grand parents. That in no way shape or form means what was allowed back then was wrong or incorrect.
And just because our standards have changed to something different does not neccesarily mean the change was indeed for the better.....it simply means it has changed.
btk
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Again, in all fairness to Paula Deen (from the south), again I can see all sides of everyone's story.....and put it into perspective.
We were raised in a city close to New York City.........
At age nineteen, I still remember sitting in my eye doctor's office and picking up a magazine......EBONY. I was really surprised to see the advertisements were not like the ones I normally saw in my parents magazines such as Saturday Evening Post, Look, Life, Time, etc.......
Then, shortly after the Newark, New Jersey riots.......right about when our baby daughter was born , I went back into the city to shop.........it had totally changed...........and the manikins in Bambergers windows or the other big department store windows were no longer all lily white.
Prior to that........we had been SHOCKED when in 1965 we drove to Miami Beach Florida on our honeymoon (aged twenty) and while stopping each night in a different southern state.....or just stopping at rest areas while traveling south.........we saw the "White Bathrooms" and the other bathrooms...........ditto for the water fountains.......so they were still there in 1965.
Not sure what state Paula Deen was raised in...........