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Rhiannon12866

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13. Good Grief! We learned all about the Civil Rights Movement in 9th grade history
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 11:20 AM
Oct 2025

And then I watched "Eyes on the Prize" which was certainly disturbing. I grew up in a fairly diverse community and no one ever mentioned skin color or heritage, not my parents, my grandmother or my teachers. Everyone was different, anyway, we weren't black or white like chess pieces.

And when I had just turned 8, I went to Florida with my aunt, uncle and closest cousin to spend Easter vacation with my grandmother who was spending the winter there and my uncle stopped at a car wash in Georgia. The older couple who ran it was friendly to us kids, little blonde girls, gave us each a pen with the name of the car wash on it. But then I spotted the rest rooms - there was a pink door that said "Ladies," a blue door that said "Men," and a yellow door that said "Colored!" Obviously I'd never seen anything like that in my life, so I started to ask my aunt what that meant, but I could tell from her expression that I needed to shut up. And I never brought it up again. The South in the early '60s.

So is this something we want to go back to, have we made so little progress?? Did MLK Jr. sacrifice his life for nothing?? We know that TFG is a nasty bigot, but he has no right to turn back the clock to that awful time when I was 8.

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I have a question, for people labeled "colored." raging moderate Oct 2025 #1
O dear God some_of_us_are_sane Oct 2025 #2
it took 1/2 century to get this far rampartd Oct 2025 #4
It's a 'shitshow now'.... some_of_us_are_sane Oct 2025 #6
i'm kinda hoping for an internal power struggle if trump ever dies. rampartd Oct 2025 #8
I agree, rampartd some_of_us_are_sane Oct 2025 #9
Remind me what year we're in? vapor2 Oct 2025 #26
provision was flagged because it was revised under the Obama administration to include "gender identity." BlueWaveNeverEnd Oct 2025 #3
they have a list, and trans/gay people are on it rampartd Oct 2025 #5
Oh? I can't wait until the mandatory blood/DNA tests go into effect. ... littlemissmartypants Oct 2025 #7
Good Grief! We learned all about the Civil Rights Movement in 9th grade history Rhiannon12866 Oct 2025 #13
I would like to think that American society Mblaze Oct 2025 #10
Well, women ,in general,have been considered a "color" for a long time.. BattleRow Oct 2025 #12
The only segregation I want The Madcap Oct 2025 #11
Fucking try it and see what happens WhatTheFlux Oct 2025 #14
THIS orangecrush Oct 2025 #19
Absolutely sickening! Fuck these evil motherfuckers LymphocyteLover Oct 2025 #15
If anyone opens up a segregated restaurant in this day & age KS Toronado Oct 2025 #16
I would certainly do the same, my friend! Rhiannon12866 Oct 2025 #25
I grew up with white people. Now I live where there are many nationalities. Neighbors have been twodogsbarking Oct 2025 #17
WTF orangecrush Oct 2025 #18
And scotus is about to kill the voting rights act. Kablooie Oct 2025 #20
I kind of wonder why it took them so long rurallib Oct 2025 #21
They waited til they "owned it all". calimary Oct 2025 #22
Does this mean that Clarence Thomas will have to divorce his wife at some point? Any lawsuit must force the USSC to in2herbs Oct 2025 #23
Good Point, in2herbs! some_of_us_are_sane Oct 2025 #27
THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 Jimvanhise Oct 2025 #24
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