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Reply to comment by MalibuHulaDuck in Bob Dylan on the back porch of the SNCC office, Greenwood, Mississippi, 1963 by MalibuHulaDuck
I spent time there in the eighties and found that to be mostly the case but there was a significant change from the sixties. For example, it was no longer unusual for there to be management or foreman positions held by minorities that in the sixties would not have been the case. I haven’t been back to the Delta but my assumption would be it has continued to make progress but not as much as would be preferred!
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Reply to Bob Dylan on the back porch of the SNCC office, Greenwood, Mississippi, 1963 by MalibuHulaDuck
White folks didn’t do this often in that part of the world in 1963. Pleased we have put much of that attitude behind us. Not all, we still have a ways to go, but not as far as we have come.
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Reply to comment by CommunicationOk8674 in China Built a Hypersonic Generator That Could Power Unimaginable Weapons by ethereal3xp
Makes me wonder what we have, given their lack of originality.
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Reply to Wormholes Bend Light Like Black Holes Do — and That Makes it Possible to Find Them, New Study by Gari_305
If they bend light the same way how will they tell the difference?
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Reply to My MIL & her brothers, 1960s. by yttikat
None of the somewhat limited progress could have occurred had it not been for white folks being much better than many would have you believe. That said there is still a long path ahead. Though, I believe the path ahead is much shorter than the one already traveled.
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Reply to comment by ldeveraux in Leon Russell (1970) by proteanradish
You will be pleasantly surprised! He was an amazing contributor to music.
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Reply to My grandfather in 1925 at age 20 by getbackzack
Somebody stole the collar off his shirt
bobalou2you t1_j6ke9fi wrote
Buddies tell me they once (80’s) had a midget tossing contest at a party somewhere near Wrigley Field.
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Reply to comment by DavoTB in Rehearsal for our recreation of “We Are The World” for our 1985 high school talent show. by dsch3ll
I was thinking Ralph Macheo
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Reply to comment by the-mindful-pipe in Why I was wearing mum´s nightgown I do not remember but I do think I was a little cool back in 1986. by the-mindful-pipe
George would’ve loved the vibe
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Reply to Why I was wearing mum´s nightgown I do not remember but I do think I was a little cool back in 1986. by the-mindful-pipe
Hare, Hare Krishna
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Amy Winehouse front right, doin some time travel
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Reply to comment by BecomeABenefit in My Vietnamese parents at the Red square, Russia, probably 1986. They lived there while my mom went to med school. by yttikat
It’s a rectangle actually but…Russia
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Reply to comment by MalibuHulaDuck in Bob Dylan on the back porch of the SNCC office, Greenwood, Mississippi, 1963 by MalibuHulaDuck
You obviously know more about the workings of the Delta than I. What I can say, I actually had men of color as bosses in the trades and that could not have or probably would not have happened during Jim Crow. Additionally, I know for a fact that at least two neighborhoods have a pretty significant number of different races living on the same and adjacent streets. The little I’ll say is my grandparents (now deceased) were folks that interacted as neighbors often do with respect and friendship and they were poor, ignorant, sharecropper rednecks born in the 1910’s. A blanket “100%” statement is simply not correct, at least not in the town I lived in. Is it still bad, I am sure. Are their racist assholes there, of course. They are everywhere and I believe on all sides of the race issue. But it is significantly better than Jim Crow. I will say, things are probably deteriorating in the Delta, but more specifically all over America especially in small rural towns, and other than poor employment due to factories leaving for China I am not interested in expressing my opinions on why fiscal and monetary policy are screwing up our country. 1950’s Alabama could not have been much worse than Mississippi, and Mississippi may have been worse than Alabama certainly in the Delta, though as I was either very young or not yet born I am not really speaking from experience. I am sorry for your pain and anger. You should try to let go of that. It sounds like it was quite a while ago and holding on to the anger doesn’t help you. Our society has obviously made changes along the way. Unfortunately not all folks change at the same pace. But given time, the US seems to get it right. At least eventually; and often quite painfully. I hope you’ve found your peace/place in the world.