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Originally Posted by Golfingnut
Our generation is, or at least was, for the most part, racist!...
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Originally Posted by DianeM
.... We're all from an era when those words were acceptable....
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Originally Posted by senior citizen
.... However, not all families were racist back in the 1950's into say 1962, etc.
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It's easy to write off our racism—that is, those of us who were—by explaining (or excusing?) it as a product of the times, as pointed out by Golfingnut and DianeM. But while "separate but not equal," "white and colored water fountains," "poll taxes," and "lynchings" were more part of the times back then than now, it doesn't mean that back then—on a personal level—every individual and every family manifested racist attitudes, as pointed out by senior citizen.
My parents certainly did
not reflect the times in this regard, and I was raised in an atmosphere that was the antithesis of racism. And I have no recollection that in doing/being so, my parents were out to make a social statement or that they were bucking what was contemporary at the time; rather, this is the way they chose to live—strictly on a personal level—and the values with which they raised me. 'Nuff said....
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Originally Posted by BobnBev
.... It doesn't matter to me, one way or the other, what Paula Dean thinks or says....
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And to go back to the topic, I completely agree; Paula Deen's life is none of my business!