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15. I wouldn't go so far as to say that racism has been understood to be a character flaw since 1967

Reply to cab67 (Original post)

Sat Mar 27, 2021, 09:05 PM

Mar 2021

we still had segregated public schools as late as 1970 (de jure) and into the late 1970's (de facto). Boston's new mayor is about the same age as us and was in the first desegregated class of her middle school. In short, the Civil Rights era is a lot younger than we give it credit for being since we largely weren't really paying attention in the early and mid 1970's being that we were kids.

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"I'm old fashioned" and "that's how I was raised." [View all] cab67 Mar 2021 OP

Good Post! ProfessorGAC Mar 2021 #1

I was raised Diamond_Dog Mar 2021 #2

I was raisied by a bigot father too. Tommymac Mar 2021 #17

I was too. Blue_playwright Mar 2021 #19

Whenever I here that edhopper Mar 2021 #3

Well, abolitionists were also "old-fashioned", so that doesn't even come close to being an excuse. eppur_se_muova Mar 2021 #4

Yep - my husband's ancestor was at the state meeting when the Quakers split over abolition csziggy Mar 2021 #16

Oddly enough, this reminds me of the "when SNL was funny" crowd. Maybe someone can explain it better dameatball Mar 2021 #5

IT WAS WRONG THEN, IT IS WRONG NOW Skittles Mar 2021 #6

+1 2naSalit Mar 2021 #9

What?? It's prejudice baggage. I thought we never tolerated childhood baggage past age 30! ancianita Mar 2021 #7

Unless you're about a hundred fifty years old there is no way Raine Mar 2021 #8

My father grew up in one of those towns where blacks, except latrine cleaners, had to be gone by Karadeniz Mar 2021 #10

How one is raised and how one behaves are not the same thing. It's called choice. nt Biophilic Mar 2021 #11

I'm 68 y/o Dem_in_Nebr. Mar 2021 #12

. Lame excuse if ever there was one czarjak Mar 2021 #13

All progeny of my parental units recoiled at their racism... and tendency to vote against their own lambchopp59 Mar 2021 #14

I wouldn't go so far as to say that racism has been understood to be a character flaw since 1967 dsc Mar 2021 #15

Understood cab67 Mar 2021 #22

both are terrible, the old fashioned is worse RANDYWILDMAN Mar 2021 #18

served in the military . monkeyman1 Mar 2021 #20

K & R mountain grammy Mar 2021 #21

Just other ways of saying "I'm not even gonna try to justify my unjustifiable behavior" RockRaven Mar 2021 #23

My people used to torture captives, cut their thoats, and bury them in the bogs DBoon Mar 2021 #24

I am quite old fashioned tirebiter Mar 2021 #25

Can you give an example? TheFarseer Mar 2021 #26

I've witnessed it myself. cab67 Mar 2021 #29

3 & 4 definitely TheFarseer Mar 2021 #30

"My father, his father, his father before him...all Sons Of The Confederacy." BobTheSubgenius Mar 2021 #27

Members of my family were racists Marthe48 Mar 2021 #28

But you'll never hear "Call me old fashioned but the CEO-worker pay ratio seems a little off" ck4829 Mar 2021 #31