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Dear Jerry,
I remember those times that you speak of in the LATE fifty's early sixty's. That
was almost twenty years difference from MY experience. The events that happened
had nothing to do with MY experience. In my post, I indicated I lived in Claxton,
Georgia. That's a whole different country than Alabama.
Most of the beatings and killings were done by the Police force, and a very, very,
tiny segment of the whites.
Any way, calling me a liar or attacking me for simply reporting my memories of how
things really was simply because they don't align with your perception of the
truth is what does not wash.
I can remember the one place that Blacks and whites together met. At the country
store, on Saturday or after church on Sunday. It was called the "porch meeting".
the General store had a big front porch with rockers and barrels and wood crates
to sit on. It even had a wood stove on one side for when it got cold. No body
went in side our of respect for the owner of the store. Blacks and Whites sat and
smoked, chewed, carved; talked about the weather; talked about nothing and talked
about everything. And yes, Blacks sat on one side and Whites sat on the other
side some times, and other times they just sat on the porch with their legs
hanging off. No one sat on the steps.
Yes, maybe we were isolated from the media's attempt to divide the races and keep
them at each others throats, but you see, we were all we had! We were our
community. It made no difference whether we LIKED blacks or not, and it made no
difference whether THEY LIKED Whites or not. What we did was RESPECT each other!
We were all equally poor and all we had was each other.
What I have reported on this list is the truth FROM MY EXPERIENCE. I lived it and
I know.
Maybe you might face some reality yourself and understand that any number of
blacks killed or maimed while protesting does not make the whole world guilty does
it? The same as the Kent State Massacre does not make the whole National Guard
Guilty. You need to realize that most of this atrocities have been perpetrated by
your government.
I don't mean to be disrespectful, but you need not call someone you don't know a
liar for expressing his memories; just because it don't align with your agenda.
So if you have a response (and I know you will) could you just keep it civil and
not resort to name calling or character bashing? Maybe we could just debate the
issues and leave the character out of it.
Sincerely
Jim Norman
Gerald Harp wrote:
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> In a message dated 1/9/99 7:55:25 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>
> > I was raised in the old South in Claxton, Georgia 1941-1949 and I can tell
> > you from personal
> > experience that the old South I experienced respected everyone.
>
> Your post is disconnected from reality. You and Howard have shared your
> fantasy but it doesn't wash. When southern blacks with a number of
> participating whites began the freedom bus rides and sin-ins during the 1950s
> and 1960s, they were a threat to most of the quaint gentle white folk of the
> South. That's why so many of the marchers and bus riders and sit-in people
> were beaten, sometimes so bad that they were maimed, sometimes even killed but
> most were simply hosed or had police dogs sicked on them or were beaten with
> night sticks and jailed. Reality may not be pretty but if you face it you
> don't have to defend something that never was.
>
> Jerry
>
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