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Topic subjectI'm from that town and I can tell you...
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12708865, I'm from that town and I can tell you...
Posted by Kei2Lyfe, Mon Jan-26-15 07:23 AM
That nice shit is just surface level. I don't care how many Black folks move there. The kind of racism I grew up with in the 80s and early 90s was a lot like the kind depicted in movies about the 60s. Stuff like not being allowed to swim in the public pool in Porterdale, which was eventually cemented over to avoid integration. The Klan marching during the homecoming parade. Fighting at the high school because white folks didn't want a Black valedictorian. It's still there, though. It just doesn't bubble to the top as quickly as it used to.