Reply #90: This makes me think of something that happened during the 70s

[pipi_k]

I was born and grew up in Mass, and we didn't have the segregation thing going on up here. Not where I lived, anyway...

but during the early 70s my first husband and I moved for a while to a southern state. I was out driving around with a girl pal one day and we passed through a black neighborhood. I could NOT believe the sorry state of the houses there...and there was something very different about the demeanor of the people. Up here, black people had no problem looking whites in the eye. Down there in that small city we drove through, it was like a time travel trip into some other age. The blacks shuffled, and they refused to (or had been taught they should not) look directly at whites.

It was disturbing, to say the least...