Reply #83: well I was born in 1962 and thus there was not segregation in my childhood

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There was not segregation in my parent's childhood either, I am quite sure of it because the places where they grew up in the 1940s were 99.44% white. Race was probably not an issue that they thought much about and certainly were not taught to hate or fear black people. I was taught that my ancestors put their lives on the line and sometimes died to end slavery. Granted, those white people in Chicago and Detroit, some of them made a fuss in the 1960s when it was their neighborhood or school being integrated, but there were also white kids going down into the south and risking violence or death in order to advance civil rights. There is not, I don't believe, a long history of racism or racist attitudes among many white people in the north. Maybe my parents could tell me different, especially since they moved to South Carolina in 1957.