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Rhiannon12866

(244,698 posts)
13. Good Grief! We learned all about the Civil Rights Movement in 9th grade history
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 12:20 PM
10 hrs ago

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