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

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AwgustaDawg

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LOLOLOLOLOLOL

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We GenXers grew up watching Sigourney Weaver in Aliens, looking up to Mr. T, and listening to Boy George on the radio. It just was what it was. Nothing seemed forced down people's throats nor did there seem to be much outrage. Somehow, people today think they invented all this

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This...these kids think that they invented ending racism and leading the way for gays and rainbow people..I SAY the 70's and 80's people accepted and invented androgynous stars from Mick Jagger to Prince to Boy George (muh, non-binary.. puh-lease), famous gay people everywhere from Elton John, Jody Foster, Liberace, and Truman Capote to Barry Manilow. Uber-Famous and wealthy black film, music and sports stars coming out of the woodwork..too many to count...
This Gen Z bunch just hijacked what was already a solved issue and allowed the MSM to turn it into a war over nothing.

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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.

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Nobody said they weren’t “still around”. They were just largely irrelevant like they are today.

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They were irrelevant unless you happened to have been black and stopped at the red light where they were collecting money then I suspect you might remember them a bit differently. They weren't irrelevant in Forsyth country when 400 of them attacked 80 people marching to the court house in Cumming, Georgia. The courts did not find them irrelevant, that little dust up cost them millions of dollars. They of course never paid but some of them lost everything as individuals and rightfully so. One of the ringleaders of that gang was my Mother's stepbrother. He spent nearly a year in prison for it and it cost him everything he had and it was justified.

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I mean, maybe you still know some hard core racists but I honestly don’t.

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I mean, he does vote for the party that brought us slavery and Jim Crow.

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I mean, maybe you still know some hard core racists but I honestly don’t.

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You ain't going to get anywhere arguing with that guy. He's one of those who likes to take extreme positions on pretty much everything and sees racism behind every bush. I think most of us know what you are saying is correct and while he will never admit it so does he