re: Gen x and how we were brought up with race and on tv

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I’m calling bullshite.

I went to kindergarten and 1st/2nd grade at Church Street Elementary in Riverdale and it wasn’t segregated in the mid 70’s. There were black kids in my class.

Then moved to Madison GA and the school was about 50/50.

Moved to rural GA and it was segregated only by choice. Black people lived in their part of town and went to their restaurants…but they weren’t barred from anywhere. This was 1980ish. Then moved to N GA

Never saw a Klansman except once when they had a march in the late 80’s and everyone laughed at them.

Throughout there were pockets of people with racist ideas but they were all old and have since moved on.

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I was in the 4th grade by the mid 1970s. My first school was BC Haynie in Morrow in 72/73 school year. There were no black kids in that school. My sisters were in the 5 and 6th grades at the same school and there were never any black kids in that school while they were there. It wasn't segregated by law but was for certain segregated by design in that the district lines were drawn to keep it all white. It was not integrated in the 2nd or 3rd grade either. We moved to Dawson County midway through the my third grade and Dawson county did not have to redraw district lines because there were no black people living in Dawson County at the time....and weren't through the mid 80's (Forsyth County either). In the 6th grade we moved to Bartow County and their schools were integrated and every school I went to from then on was. This was not unusual in Atlanta and the metro area in the mid 70s. They weren't segregated by law but by design.

We used travel from Cartersville to Lithia Springs just about every Saturday. If the weather was nice there'd be klansman at HWY 92 and 278 in Hiram collecting money. This was through the mid 1980s. It was also common in other parts of metro Atlanta.

I have a phone book somewhere from Cartersville Georgia from the late 1970s that has a listing in if for the Klan. Listed under fraternal organizations. It makes no difference to me one way or another if anyone disputes these facts...I lived them, I know they are accurate. I am sure it'd be possible to have lived in metro Atlanta at the time and not notice it but I certainly did. If you were under the impression that everything about it was normal I suspect you wouldn't have noticed it.