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May 3rd, 2016 at 12:22:03 PM permalink | |
ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12586 |
I don't know much about you, but I can safely say that you are not the target audience for Old Navy. “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
May 3rd, 2016 at 2:46:48 PM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Jazz clubs often had racially mixed customers, I'm sure Speakeasys were open to anyone who replied to the Mary Had A Little Lamb challenge with the response And The Doctor Fainted. San Francisco was more racially mixed than Los Angeles. I think it was the big sleep where a Pasadena gambling joint was depicted. Generally upscale, white clientele: dinner, drinks, singing, ... and a casino. I think blacks were legal in Pasadena but not in neighboring Glendale where blacks were uniformly arrested if it was after sundown. A lot of movies distort history: look at all those poker games in the movies and so few faro tables in the cantina. |
May 3rd, 2016 at 3:03:51 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18268 |
I would doubt that. There were probably speakeasies in black neighborhoods same as white and people stayed in each. You probably went to the wrong place at considerable peril to yourself. The President is a fink. |
May 3rd, 2016 at 3:25:03 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25013 |
There were definitely speaks in Black neighborhoods. People just don't realize how segregated public places were. Not by law, by preference. For every white guy in a bar who didn't care if a black came in, there were 10 who were violently against it. They were raised that way, they were brainwashed, just like a religion. Blacks were 2nd class people, not as good as whites, and letting them in means you are 2nd class. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
May 3rd, 2016 at 3:42:08 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18268 |
But the thing is a white in a black bar would not fare any better. I agree people do not realize how it was. County pools by me were segregated until 1970 or 1971. Then they closed the black pool for a year, opened it for a year, then closed it forever. (It was older and smaller, but free.) If you went to the wrong pool chances are you would be near drowned, assuming you made it out of the locker room alive. My dad saw a black kid go to the white pool, several cops had to escort him off the premises. I also don't go along with the "2nd Class" thing. It was more about it being "our place" to people. They would mean no harm outside, but attitude was each their own place. That is not just skin color. Many was the bar near a mill which was for the Irish and if you were Polish then "your place" was 2 doors down. Hunkys were 3 doors down the other way. In my own town I was told the bar to stay out of based on skin tone. The President is a fink. |
May 3rd, 2016 at 5:08:55 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25013 |
Same here. As soon as city pools became unsegregated, they closed in two years. Too many fights, too many near rape incidents involving young white girls. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
May 3rd, 2016 at 5:22:59 PM permalink | |
odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 154 Posts: 5133 |
The wikipedia article doesn't mention it [unless I missed it] but Sundown Towns were a phenomenon across the US and were actually more rare in the South than elsewhere. I lived in one as a child, or at least people said it was such [I don't remember a sign]. It was one of those rare towns in the South where there were almost no Af/A residents due to the fact it sprang up after the Civil War. I think this says why Sundown Towns were found less in Dixie: most towns and cities already had large black populations; Sundown ordinances were put in place where this was not the case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |
May 4th, 2016 at 2:25:35 AM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Blackjack Dealer intones to Floor Man as three black chips are placed in the 'last base' betting box by a black man: Blacks in play! Southern Girl sitting at First Base replies: Oh, please don't make a fuss. I don't mind if he plays. The mass migration of the depression and then of the war caused social change but even the Army that sent black laborers to build a military road in Alaska felt it important to keep blacks away from the native population. Troops moving thru the south would see "Men, Women, Colored" bathrooms and had to be ordered not to drink from the 'white' water fountain. High wages in the auto plants and then high wages in all defense plants brought migration to the city but settlement within was probably still by neighborhoods. I once met a girl whose father was hassled by the police for letting a black woman walk past him on the White side of the street in some small Southern town. |
May 4th, 2016 at 2:37:13 AM permalink | |
odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 154 Posts: 5133 | Our little group here is coming down hard on "that stuff was not right" - no dissent I think But there are probably people who consider DT to be full of bigots of the opposite kind I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |
May 4th, 2016 at 12:35:18 PM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18834 |
http://health.usnews.com/health-care/articles/2016-05-04/robots-stake-their-claim-in-the-operating-room You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |