Affirmative Action Killed Southern White Middleclass
Blue Hamilton Spruce Pine, NC Having grown up poor and white in the deep south in the 1960’s, it was common to hear racial slurs...
That Uniform Don’t Cover Your Ass
Sid Makeba Raleigh, NC I was so proud in the fall of 1960 to join and wear the uniform of The United States Air Force....
Lena was our maid, MISS her!
Lisa Freund Taylor Laclede, MO In reality, she was our caregiver. Raising a white womans children in southeast Texas in the 60’s. Divorce broke up...
Drank from the wrong fountain: white.
Ty Cooper Arlington, VA I was born (1950) into a family of sharecroppers in eastern NC. We lived one mile from the nearest road. I...
Thought more would change in 60’s
Robin Bass Brooklyn, NY I’m glad for the progress made…but frustrated that we still have so far to go
Seventeen white and member of NAACP
Gordon McAlister Waconia, MN It’s the 60’s I’m white seventeen and a member of the NAACP It means I’m cool, enlightened, support the cause, and...
What opened my eyes: “flesh-colored” bandages
Irene M. Pepperberg, Swampscott, MA. I was in high school, a racially integrated one, in the 60s, discussing racial issues with a contemporary black woman,...
Black neighborhood. Stop light. Lock doors.
Ginny Adams North Platte, NE I learned this from my parents while growing up in Detroit; 60* years later I still find myself struggling not...
“Anti-racism” is a codeword for “anti-white”
Roderick Bateman Ottawa, Canada In the 1960’s all and only white countries opened their borders to massive non-white immigration. Then governments and media demanded we...
