In article <_kqie.1389974$8l.1272700@pd7tw1no>,
"Tashi" wrote:
> 9.It shocked me that "white" people in the South still refer to black people
> as "blacks" ie: "the blackies", "the darkies" "I had one of our black staff
> make these", our "black people" did this. I would get the shit kicked out
> of me if I did this back home..LOL!!! Me and my mom were trying to figure
> out why the older "white" people had to make it known that a "blackie" did
> something, or that they did something for the "darkie". I think this
> surprised me the most.
You must be pretty young; that is, younger than about 40! I worked in LA
in the late 1950's, and the whole region was as racist/segregated as you
could get. That has only changed gradually since passage of the civil
rights laws in the late 1960's. |