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JCMach1

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23. That shit was not acceptable in the deep red South 1980's

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Original post)

Sat Feb 9, 2019, 02:05 PM

Feb 2019

I was a college student and teenager then. It seems to have been a racist tradition among elite schools, the wealthy and Greek societies...

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The mistake of looking at events through today's eyes and not the eyes from the past [View all] Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 OP

"Isn't it possible that we have just become more enlightened over time?" WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2019 #1

Everybody knew it was racist and wrong. Iggo Feb 2019 #2

Yours is a better point than mine. WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2019 #3

If we are just talking halloween costumes totally disagree based on my experience. Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 #10

I'm talking about the bullshit of claiming ignorance about blackface in the 1980s. Iggo Feb 2019 #12

I think you're 100% incorrect ... mr_lebowski Feb 2019 #26

Well stated! nt jrthin Feb 2019 #15

And if they didn't know it, why didn't they do it in public or with their black friends? EffieBlack Feb 2019 #34

I understand. My point is that NO ONE I knew was aware of that. And I grew up Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 #6

Just because the people you grew up around were apparently clueless doesn't mean that EffieBlack Feb 2019 #16

you are missing the point completely. Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 #17

No, I'm not EffieBlack Feb 2019 #19

So, we agree to disagree. I can't possibly know what you Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 #25

We're not agreeing about a POV. You're alleging a fact that simply isn't true EffieBlack Feb 2019 #31

I was expressing my POV. If you don't get that, leave me alone, please. Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 #33

If you want to be left alone, perhaps you shouldn't post your POV on a public discussion board EffieBlack Feb 2019 #35

Just by you. Like what would be infinitely more civil would be, In my experience Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 #37

You should have watched lame sitcoms theboss Feb 2019 #4

Quite a difference between what I am talking about and what they are talking about Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 #7

Dick Van Dyke got it in 1965 EffieBlack Feb 2019 #18

Boom. Thank you Effie! Docreed2003 Feb 2019 #27

Even through the eyes of the past - way back in the 1980s - blackface was still racist af Empowerer Feb 2019 #5

I don't even know if we are talking about the same thing. All I am talking about Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 #8

Impersonating a particular black person by wearing brown makeup to match their skintone isn't racist EffieBlack Feb 2019 #14

You may not have notice, but many poc did. If you want to imitate jrthin Feb 2019 #20

Good Lord - are we actually arguing whether it was common knowledge blackface was racist in the 80s? EffieBlack Feb 2019 #13

The problem with the "product of their time" argument is... Garrett78 Feb 2019 #9

The Governor of Virginia... tonedevil Feb 2019 #11

Wait a minute. You actually dressed up like a spousal abuse victim whose husband slit her throat? EffieBlack Feb 2019 #21

I made this point last week Awsi Dooger Feb 2019 #22

Thanks for the calm and reasoned voice! That's an interesting and true Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 #30

That shit was not acceptable in the deep red South 1980's JCMach1 Feb 2019 #23

Rev William Barber addressed this: Dennis Donovan Feb 2019 #24

Thank you for passing this on ! Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 #36

Robert Byrd was in the Klan in the 1940s and elected to Congress in 1959 EffieBlack Feb 2019 #39

Found it: Felix FRANKFURTER quote re: FDR (applies to Pius XII) vs the Holocaust:: UTUSN Feb 2019 #28

Excellent - Thank you Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 #38

The American people have definitely become more uptight. shockey80 Feb 2019 #29

What about the Klan person in the picture???? people Feb 2019 #32

This message was self-deleted by its author Blues Heron Feb 2019 #40

It was definitely considered racist. lunatica Feb 2019 #41