https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2019/02/20/blackface-racist-photos-yearbooks-colleges-kkk-lynching-mockery-fraternities-black-70-s-80-s/2858921002/USAToday indept investigation searched more than 900 yearbooks from 40 and 50 years ago! They found shocking instances of racist imagery!!1!!
Good GOD, we are a pansy society. Things change. What was accepted then may not be accepted now.
Watch The Jeffersons. Watch Good Times. Watch All in the Family. Watch Match Game. It's just how things were. People -- of ALL races -- had a sense of humor and through that humor MY generation was able to truly change the nature of race relations. MY generation was the first to make peace with integration. I'm not that old but I still remember when black folks went upstairs at the movies because that's what they were accustomed to doing. I still remember having a full-time house maid who cooked, cleaned and took care of me. And I wasn't rich by any stretch of the imagination. We were poor folks, but my grandparents paid Miss D to work for my mom. I still remember the "Mammy" Bugs Bunny cartoons. I loved the Bre'r Rabbit stories -- and oh the horror of horrors, I told them to my own kids. I remember Heckle and Jeckle. I remember when that dog would get blasted by Droopy and he'd have the little pigtails and the blackface. That's. Just. How. Things. Were.
Things were different. Period. We absolutely CANNOT lynch the people by applying today's (screwed up, socialist, tight-assed, triggered) standards to decades old behavior.
For USAToday to go surfing through old yearbooks looking for crosses to plant up on the high hill is a symptom of the dangerous precipice on which we stand. It's got to stop.
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