1957 vs. 2007: How Times Have Changed!

How about this:

Scenario - 1957: Black kids come to a school in the south and find nooses hanging from a tree on campus. Principal laughs and later thanks the parents of the white kids who hung the nooses at the local Klan meeting that night. Nothing is done to the perpetrators

2007: Black kids come to a school in the south to find a noose hanging from a tree on campus. Outrage ensues from the Black community. Big March. District Attorney laughs..thanks the parents of the white kids who hung the nooses at the local Klan meeting that night. Nothing substantial is done to the perpetrators.

Actually..thats not much difference huh? Daaaaamn! in fact black kids werent even in school with white kids in '57..My bad lol

Sorry Kamikaze, 2007: any kid comes to school to find a noose hanging from a tree and everyone, white and black, would be/should be outraged. As far as going to school together, depends on what part of the country you are from. Up North, white and black kids have been going to school together forever. Down South, it was 1971 before white and black kids went to school together. I know, I was there.

As far as the initial email, in 1957, I was 4 years old and actually remember most of what the scenarios refer to in my early years. They were good years. We could walk or ride our bikes almost anywhere (and did) without our parents worrying. How did we get so lost from them to now? We are reacting to the "scariness" of the world but do we have to "throw the baby out with the bath water"?
NOYRSELF

personally, I appreciate how *no girls* went to school in 1957. At least according to those scenarios. The only people nostsalgic for the 1950s tend to be white men. And, after watching "Mad Men", I can see why. (Yes, I know, Mad Men set in the 1960s, but you get the idea.)

NOYRSLF- MOM??? What are you doing on here?

Kaze-I think my mom just "spanked" you. :) Go easy on her. I got my mouth from somewhere.

I ain't the kind to start mess, but those white female teachers have been off the chain recently. They're hitting on more young boys than the star linebacker on the football team. What's up with that these days? I ain't saying other female teachers aren't doing it too, but if they are, they aren't amking the news as much.

Im good Lori..THAT was a spanking? LOL. I was strictly referring to the south. Think I stated it in my scenario. Northerners had long since started integrating before we did. And sorry NOYRSLF not everyone in the south would have been outraged. Infact in 1957 folks wouldnt have taken a second glance. They SHOULD have been outraged ...true! But wouldnt have been. A little northern optimism at the time I suppose. But that makes excuses for the blatant ignorance that existed and still exists in the south.

1957 may have been tender years for you but its a dark time that a lot of Black folks dont shoose to glorify trust me.

HA! Her spankings of me are much worse...trust me.

Although, I wish she would come back because, while her family is northern (grandmother is Italian and hails from NJ), Mom was around when they integrated schools in the Delta (Cleveland) to be exact. I'm very sure she has interesting memories of that time.

northers did not intergrate as well as you folks may like to think...some of the most violent protests to intergration were in boston...

Boston and some other places, too, Skipp. The northerners badmouthed the south something terribly as long as blacks stayed down south and until too many italians, Irish catholics, jews and others migrated there. We then learned many northerners weren't all that glad to have us up there either. Some even built projects to keep negroes in a certain area of confinement.