Subj : Re: Floyd
To : DALE SHIPP
From : TIM RICHARDSON
Date : Fri Jul 31 2020 10:38 pm
On 07-26-20, DALE SHIPP said to GREGORY DEYSS:
-=> On 07-25-20 01:10, Tim Richardson <=-
-=> spoke to Gregory Deyss about Re: Floyd <=-
TR> He must have grown up in the south somewhere (Alabama, maybe?).
DS>Actually, mostly in Florida.
TR> I started school in the mid 1940's. I went to all public schools. In
TR> every school I was ever in there were black students. I was even put in
TR> a mostly black school in the ghetto for two years as a punishment by
TR> the superentendent of the city's school district.
DS>I also went to public schools starting in the mid 1940s. Although I
DS>certainly saw blacks on the streets, I never saw them in any of my
DS>schools until I left Florida to go to college. Years later I went back
DS>to my high school and asked the principal there -- where did the blacks
DS>go to high school. I went there and it was a much smaller building and
DS>no longer in service as a school.
TR> All schools I went to were staffed by public school teachers. Whatever
TR> I was taught in those schools, black students were taught as well.
DS>As I just said -- not true where I went to school until I left for
DS>college.
TR> Everything I was exposed to in the way of teaching in the public
TR> schools, the black students were taught at the same time.
DS>Not my experience.
TR> When I hear or read that crap about blacks having been at a
TR> `disadvantage' in school....or `blacks never had the same chance as
TR> whites'....thats horseshit! Pure and simple horseshit!
DS>Not my experience, and not according to documented evidence that is
DS>public knowledge. That fact is the reason for desegregation orders
DS>years later.
Not surprised. You're talking about the South. Where I grew up people had
families who's recent ancesters had fought in the Civil War on the Union side
to end slavery. There was an old man around 120 years old who was a Civil War
veteran. I used to walk past his house going to and from one of the schools I
attended. He died around 1949 or there abouts.
Blacks attended school the same as I did. Neither I nor any of the members of
my family or ancestry going back to my great grandfathers, ever owned a slave,
sold a slave, or even believed in slavery.
Neither I nor any member of my family owe a penny in `reparations' to anyone.
Nor do we have any `white guilt' about slavery!
Do I think `reparations' should be paid? No!
There is not a single black person alive in this country today who ever lived
as a slave in this country.
But.....if `reparations' are wanted to be paid......I have no objection to
each and every democrat being made to pay them!
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