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The younger generations in

trkingmomoe — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:21:38 +0000

In reply to I still cannot spell the damn

The younger generations in the south are becoming less racist. This change is picking up speed and growing. These kids and young adults are more worldly because of social networks and blog groups that have the same interest. They make friends on the internet all over the world. They know our President is admired around the world and they have to answer questions on why we have so many crazy people in politics. They are tired of having to agree with the crazy uncle at dinner over holidays just to keep peace. They are less likely to follow traditional social norms of a small southern town. As frustrated that I am with the far right crazieness in politics right now I can see the change coming.

I still cannot spell the damn

Richard Day — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:53:49 +0000

In reply to I remember reading about

I still cannot spell the damn word from memory.

When I came across this prom problem in Georgia I could not believe it!

But you are right about inertia.

The kids are saying:

SCREW THIS!

Whilst the Gov is maintaining 'neutrality'. hahahahahahh

I remember reading about

MrSmith1 — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:08:12 +0000

In reply to THE PROM PROBLEM

I remember reading about miscegenation in my history class in junior high school, but I didn't really understand what it meant until I saw an amateur production of Showboat when I was in high school. I know that sounds odd, but until I saw that musical, I never thought of miscegenation as anything other than a strange word on a page; it had no meaning or visual relevance to my life. And my history teachers were bloody boring. Theater, on the other hand, is a powerful tool for teaching and changing minds. I sat in the darkness of a school auditorium and became drawn into the onstage drama, and I began to understand what miscegenation was about, and because I've always been someone who tries to figure out things and make comparisons and connections, that motivated me to go out and learn more on my own and I began to put together the whole civil rights issue in my mind, which, in the early 60's was pretty hard to ignore, even by a nerdy white kid living on Long Island. I started buying books by James Baldwin and Richard Wright. I remember buying a paperback copy of a Dick Gregory book in a drug store in Huntington and getting an odd look from the old guy at the counter. I think I was 11 or 12 at the time ... Anyway, I'm rambling. I guess I want you to know, that it will be alright. The inertia against change has melted away. What still resists are the desperate, dying holdouts, the ones that were able to insulate themselves so well because they retreated to the darkness of private communities. But eventually, death and change will come to them too. (Not necessarily in that order. Ha!)