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electric_blue68

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5. Woah. Horrific family related story, AOG. And not uncommon back in those days. I do remember a pen pal from Decatur

Reply to AverageOldGuy (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 6, 2024, 08:24 PM

Dec 6

GA in the early - mid '70s, white guy college age like me.

He was beginning to question things. He wrote me saying (what ever the interaction was) this older ?50's, 60's, or 70's yrs old Black man called him "Sir.".
So he said to me, "Me?! A "Sir" ?". Something not just on Southern Jim Crow Autopilot was beginning to happen to him, I think.

Otoh...a transplanted Black woman friend of mine from TX once mentioned that back in the day; one of her relatives had a cross burned on her lawn. Yikes!!!

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