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05-20-2017 10:10 PM 		Reply to: Message 23 by Faith
05-20-2017 9:48 PM

Re: Other geniuses
Not that individuals weren't racist, but no, America at large was NOT racist, certainly not in the sixties.
Oh, it was very racist in the sixties.
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I arrived in USA in 1962 (as a grad student at Yale). And the racism stood out like a sore thumb.
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It's true that many Americans didn't notice. The racism was so common place, that they just took it as normal. But to me, arriving from Australia, it was very obvious.
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05-21-2017 12:33 PM 		Reply to: Message 26 by Faith
05-21-2017 2:08 AM

Re: Other geniuses
The races all mingle together without the slightest sense of difference.
I would occasionally go to the corner drug store ("Liggett", at the corner of York and Elm, as I recall). And I could stand there browsing magazines for 30 minutes. If someone black tried that, the store owner would be saying "Move along" to him. And it was similar at many other stores and locations.
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