How bad it was!

Yes, shameful stuff happened. All over the country. Shameful stuff still happens, all over the country, to ALL races, perpetrated by ALL races.

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She was beautiful, she could dance, she could sing, and she could act. Most importantly, she had that indefinable magnetism that attracts an audience and holds their attention. In short, she had everything it took to be a major star in the 1950s. Everything, that is, except white skin. Today, actresses of color like Halle Berry win Oscar®s®, are hired to be "the face" of prestigious cosmetic companies, and are widely celebrated for their beauty, talent, and sex-appeal. But Dorothy Dandridge was an African-American in a less enlightened age where she could perform at the most exclusive nightclubs in the country - but she wasn't allowed to sit in the audience. She could sing at the top hotel hot spots in Las Vegas, but she couldn't get a room there or even use the pool. (She used the pool anyway, they drained and scrubbed it) It was no better in Hollywood. For decades, the best roles African-American actresses could expect were maids or long-suffering, pious mothers; the worst were shady women or stereotypical "Mammies". Dorothy Dandridge managed, for all too brief a time, to rise above that.

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How could people be so bigoted? Real funny coming from you. I'm sure 'back then' there were people who wrote articles on the diseases blacks carried and were responsible for, and others pointed them out in their arguments against blacks. I'm sure they spoke about how black men would corrupt your daughters if you didn't watch out. I'm sure they talked about how black men and women cheated on each other. Sounds like the silly a** stuff you and a few others post about gays, especially how they ALL want ALL the straight men, or men that don't really think they're women trapped in men's bodies, (transgenders), but are instead pervs so desperate to get into a woman's bathroom he'll have his ***** removed so he can dress as a woman!  So yes beternnun, tell us how people can be so bigoted that they don't just stay away from people that 'displease' them but are not harming them, but go on campaigns against them. At least no one had a problem with blacks marrying blacks.

Best ignorantly blithers:

"Yes, shameful stuff happened. All over the country. Shameful stuff still happens, all over the country, to ALL races, perpetrated by ALL races."

Ah, yes, I well remember all those segregated restaurants and hotels that denied admittance to Whites.  And let us not forget those states where White citizens were subjected to such demeaning measures as poll taxes and "literacy tests" and other qualifications required in order to simply register to vote. Then there were the one-horse town movie theaters where Whites were required to sit in the balcony while the Blacks got the downstairs seats.  And back in that era of equal prejudice,  as I am sure you will remember, White athletes were systemically excluded from playing on professional sports teams.  And of course, little White  children were trundled off to second-rate schools while their Black counterparts got the superior facilities and a disproportionate share of public school funding.

Sure, it was all even-Steven back then wasn't it?

The anti-gay thing isn't hidden. He's commented on it ofter. So often, it makes one wonder.

However, this thread is a good reminder of how the Democrats used to treat blacks for over a century.

I Didn't see it. I just asked my Friend to review his posts.

Ran this post by a Psychologist I know.

Well credentialed. 

Tel Aviv University.

Asked for a profile of you, per your posts.

He searched only Political, and Religion.

He pointed out, several things.

1. You are a White Guy.

2. Aged, late '60's.

3. Protestant. Southern Baptist, or Church of Christ.

4. You are a Rabid hater of Mormons and Catholics.

5. You secretly hate Jews.

6, You are a Democrat, and vote Democrat no matter what the Platform.

7. You are anti-Gay, but will not admit it, due to your Democrat stance.

8. You have been married to the same Woman, since "I do".

9. You berate your wife, and believe a Womans place is, in the Kitchen.

10. You tythe , only,as little as required, by your Biblical creed, and feel good about it.

11. You drive an expensive car,but do not contribute to charities. Loath homeless people.

12. You wear pants above you naval. Sometimes with suspenders.

13. You don't own guns.

14. You live in the city.

15. Your children don't come around much. 

16. You turn your porch lights off on Halloween, so you don't have to buy/give children candy.

17. If you spoke in public, as you do, sitting behind a computer, someone would beat you down.

18. Your Parents made you go to worship, every time the doors were open.

19. You had NO Negro friends while growing up.

20. You were always the last one picked, for a team, while in school.

He pegged you. Didn't he?

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Your credentialed scholar missed by a pretty wide mark 

1. You are a White Guy. Yes.  No apologies there; so are about 70% of U.S. citizens.

2. Aged, late '60's. No.  Older that that, but still good!

3. Protestant. Southern Baptist, or Church of Christ. Wow!  How did your Jewish genius figure that out?

4. You are a Rabid hater of Mormons and Catholics. Your Jewish friend plays the hate card. Strong disagreement with the religious views of others is NOT hatred. The Catholic Pope and his church are so critical of those who disagree with them on major doctrines that they still adhere to the Syllabus of Errors, a lengthy list of beliefs that, according to them are erroneous and must not be believed, in effect a condemnation of all who do believe the doctrines listed.  But I do not interpret this list as evidence that the Pope or the Catholic Church HATE all who hold to the listed alleged erroneous beliefs. Nor should your credentialed friend accord as hatred on my part the strong disagreements I have posted with respect to Catholic doctrines. It is an all-too-common practice among those with little polemical experience to characterize dissenting views as evidence of hatred. It is a cheap, shallow and shabby tactic and you should advise your  friend to that effect.

http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius09/p9syll.htm

5. You secretly hate Jews.  Total baloney!  In a quantity exceeding that in the Oscar Meyer

meat processing plant!

6, You are a Democrat, and vote Democrat no matter what the Platform.I am a Democrat and most often vote Democrat. but I have voted for Republicans and Independents and likely will do so again.

7. You are anti-Gay, but will not admit it, due to your Democrat stance. I have often posted statements strongly critical of homosexuality. If that makes me "anti-gay, so be it. Perhaps your credentialed psychologist friend believes  that it is an evil thing to oppose a practice that has been condemned by every human society that has existed until very recent times. I commend to you and your scholar friend an article written by a very literate Jewish journalist, Jeff Jacoby, which appeared in the Boston Globe some 15 years ago: 

http://www.jeffjacoby.com/6566...-to-ban-gay-marriage

8. You have been married to the same Woman, since "I do". Yes, and I offer no apology for that.  And I have been 100% faithful to my marriage vows.

9. You berate your wife, and believe a Womans place is, in the Kitchen. Total bunk. My wife is an  independent person who has worked at two jobs outside the home.  Unfortunately she is suffering from a disability that precludes kitchen activity, and thus I now do all the meal preparation, dish-washing, etc. Housekeeping also. I do not berate her, since I find in her nothing to berate.

10. You tythe , only,as little as required, by your Biblical creed, and feel good about it. I do not interpret the New Testament as requiring tithing.  Tithing was an Old Testament practice,  The New Testament, by which I am directed, nowhere commands tithing, but encourages Christians to "give as [they} have been prospered." The tithing in the Old Testament was necessary to support the large and expensive priesthood associated with a theocracy.  Tithing also involved various sacrifices that are no longer incumbent on God's people (Christians)..I do not see this forum as a venue for any detailed account of my giving practices, but I will say that we give very generously by comparison with most of our peers.

11. You drive an expensive car,but do not contribute to charities.I drive a 14-year-old car, with fewer than 85,000 miles on it.  It is in excellent condition and I will continue to drive it for so long as it stays that way.  I could, if I wished, pay cash for a new car, but I do not need a new car, since the one I have serves me well. I also have a 10-year old truck.   Loath homeless people. I loathe no one.  We are all God's children. It is hard to like some of us, but "loath" is synonymous with "hate," so there your friend goes, Harald, playing the hate card again.  Pretty cheap stuff.

12. You wear pants above you naval. Sometimes with suspenders. That is "navel."  {N]aval" refers to military ships. I am looking at an even dozen belts hanging on a rod on my bathroom door.  About 98% of the time one of them holds my pants up.  I have some suspenders that stay attached to a single pair of pants, which I wear only rarely.  I am of normal weight and bodily configuration; thus I do not need suspenders to  overcome the difficulty of keeping one's pants on while going about with a protruding abdomen

13. You don't own guns. I own a 12-gauge Italian-made shotgun and an ancient Harrington & Richardson 32-caliber pistol.  Have not fired the shotgun since I gave up hunting for fishing. Have not fired the pistol since about 1966 and have no ammunition for it..

14. You live in the city. I live in a small city.  SO?

15. Your children don't come around much. Wrong again. Both my children live in distant cities, but they both visit several times a year and we visit them several times a year.

16. You turn your porch lights off on Halloween, so you don't have to buy/give children candy. Dead wrong. For the 34 Halloweens since we first occupied this house, we have only once failed to offer treats to trick-or-treaters, and on that occasion we were out of town at a funeral. 

17. If you spoke in public, as you do, sitting behind a computer, someone would beat you down.Your friends opinion--wrong again.  I have spoken in many public situations and have never yet been beaten down.

18. Your Parents made you go to worship, every time the doors were open. They did not need to make me or my sister go.  It was a normal and natural thing. 

19. You had NO Negro friends while growing up. While growing up, I lived in a southern city in an all-white neighborhood and attended racially segregated elementary and high schools. Frankly, there were no Negroes around to make friends with. In my  late teens and early 20s, during the peak of the civil rights movement, I was outspokenly in favor of integration of public schools and other public facilities and caught plenty of hostility from the segregationists I had to live and work with.

20. You were always the last one picked, for a team, while in school.  Seldom first, but never last; usually, as I remember in the first third.  I played varsity tennis in both high school and college and played the Number 1 position on both teams in the last couple of years. I was  recruited by the high school track coach, but declined his kind offer so that I could give full attention to my preferred sport. I still have the letter jacket I got in college and it still fits me, though I have not worn it for several decades.

As to other athletic accomplishments, I still hold the informal Florida record for throwing a standard 5-tine pitchfork and having it stick in the ground. 

Your psychologist friend gets a SOLID D-MINUS, Harald!

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Who's blithering beternnun? Besides you? How much clearer could I have been? I said shameful things happened. I said shameful things were still happening. You were there going along with it then I'm sure, and you're here going along with bigotry now. I wasn't there then, I'm here now, and you have a problem with me supporting gay rights. So again beternnun, what's your point and who's the one blithering? What's 'even steven' now beternnun? You sure are in hysterics because some people want things to be 'even steven' and you don't.

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You obviously fail to understand the meaning of "even Steven."

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You used the phrase and it seems it's YOU that didn't understand it. So gay people are 'even'? Native Americans are even? Once more, maybe you should stop using phrases or 'correcting' others when you have no clue what you're talking about.

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You did not read far enough.  You just browsed the online dictionaries until you found a definition that suited your caustic purposes.  Now consider this one:

even stevens

  (British informal) also even steven (American & Australian informal)