Ms. Haake, what I said might seem to be a stretch for you due to our difference in age. As children growing up in the 50s, we were often reminded by parents (ours and our friends') how lucky we were not to be living in crime-infested Chicago with all the Ni-gers. Back then there was not a single person of color living in my town. My frie…
Ms. Haake, what I said might seem to be a stretch for you due to our difference in age. As children growing up in the 50s, we were often reminded by parents (ours and our friends') how lucky we were not to be living in crime-infested Chicago with all the Ni-gers. Back then there was not a single person of color living in my town. My friend across the street was the son of the Dem. Speaker of the House in Springfield and a good friend of Dick Daley. So I was quite familiar with the politics of both parties - and their corruption.
What we kids heard adults saying and what the nuns in my grammar school were teaching was often in moral conflict. So the year before you were born, I fled Whiteflightburbia to attend a Catholic high school half a block walk from the Water Tower on Michigan Ave. It took some conniving on my part to get my folks to let me commute by train daily from Bensenville to downtown Chicago, but it was worth it.
So you see, while you were in your crib, I was a teenager marching in Chicago for equal rights and in opposition to the Vietnam War. I was a member of the Near Northside Congress of Racial Equality at age 15. After school, my HS classmates and I did volunteer work in Chicago's all-Black public housing projects to help kids stay out of trouble. But when I returned home each night, ethnic slurs were not whispered in adult conversation - nor among my playmates.
I think there's a disconnect. I don't dispute that racism existed then and exists now, or doubt the severity of its effects. But ignorance and hatred, even mass ignorance and hatred, is simply not on par with a president executing a coup that soon will become militarized and violent, either on the global stage or at home, and probably both. to me it's like comparing apples and shoes.
But Sabrina, your exception to Tom's comment, was comparing apples to oranges. He simply said that their was racism in the democratic party, and there was and probably is, and you said that it is nothing compared to what Trump is doing, And what Trump is doing is unconnected to racism, and everything to do with him being a King.
Ms. Haake, what I said might seem to be a stretch for you due to our difference in age. As children growing up in the 50s, we were often reminded by parents (ours and our friends') how lucky we were not to be living in crime-infested Chicago with all the Ni-gers. Back then there was not a single person of color living in my town. My friend across the street was the son of the Dem. Speaker of the House in Springfield and a good friend of Dick Daley. So I was quite familiar with the politics of both parties - and their corruption.
What we kids heard adults saying and what the nuns in my grammar school were teaching was often in moral conflict. So the year before you were born, I fled Whiteflightburbia to attend a Catholic high school half a block walk from the Water Tower on Michigan Ave. It took some conniving on my part to get my folks to let me commute by train daily from Bensenville to downtown Chicago, but it was worth it.
So you see, while you were in your crib, I was a teenager marching in Chicago for equal rights and in opposition to the Vietnam War. I was a member of the Near Northside Congress of Racial Equality at age 15. After school, my HS classmates and I did volunteer work in Chicago's all-Black public housing projects to help kids stay out of trouble. But when I returned home each night, ethnic slurs were not whispered in adult conversation - nor among my playmates.
I think there's a disconnect. I don't dispute that racism existed then and exists now, or doubt the severity of its effects. But ignorance and hatred, even mass ignorance and hatred, is simply not on par with a president executing a coup that soon will become militarized and violent, either on the global stage or at home, and probably both. to me it's like comparing apples and shoes.
But Sabrina, your exception to Tom's comment, was comparing apples to oranges. He simply said that their was racism in the democratic party, and there was and probably is, and you said that it is nothing compared to what Trump is doing, And what Trump is doing is unconnected to racism, and everything to do with him being a King.