BSB8728 t1_itm1fi1 wrote on October 24, 2022 at 5:15 PM

Reply to comment by BuSsYBoI-sTaYpOpPiN in Tuskegee Airmen in Italy in 1944 by can1exy

*Twenty years* after the Tuskegee airmen came home, Colin Powell did *two* tours of duty in Vietnam. When he returned to the States and tried to order a hamburger at a restaurant in the South, he was advised to go to the take-out window around back.

HawkeyeTen t1_itmkorr wrote on October 24, 2022 at 7:19 PM

What makes the southern states look even more pathetic is when you read about how some states like Iowa had enforced integration for decades by the 60s (all public accommodations HAD to serve them). The South had no excuses for their treatment of others.

BSB8728 t1_itn0x3y wrote on October 24, 2022 at 9:03 PM

My dad was a WWII veteran, and I remember he was furious in the '70s when there was a news story about a VFW post (I can't remember where it was located) that turned away a Black veteran, telling him there were posts for people "on his side of town" -- or words to that effect. Dad wanted that post shut down.

Lexicontinuum t1_itng8tc wrote on October 24, 2022 at 10:51 PM

Hell, Cleveland Ohio had a black mayor in 1968 while the southern states were still tripping over the mere suggestion that people with African ancestors were, y'know, human.

Pathetic. And as you say, no excuse.

Edit: just looked up the year. Nineteen freakin sixty-eight!

Edit 2: Apparently he took office precisely 100 years after the United States finally granted black men full citizenship. Wow.