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Laurelin

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3. I am so sorry

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Mon Jun 15, 2026, 10:35 AM

3 hrs ago

That people with my shade of pale can be so stupid, evil, and wrong.
I take some comfort that my father's father, though born and raised in South Carolina with generations of confederacy behind him, had a cross burned in his yard for preaching against the Klan.
And my mom was first generation American, descendant of sweet, kind, gentle vikings.
Heredity is something else. Why are we still stupid enough to care about skin color or sexual preferences?

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Disheartened? These people never gave up when faced with enormous obstacles. (Repost from 2024) [View all] usonian 3 hrs ago OP

Every time I see that nasty crowd of white people taunting Ruby Bridges, I think I see Virginia Foxx in there Walleye 3 hrs ago #1

my mother in law was in that crowd rampartd 3 hrs ago #2

Wow. I remember when our school desegregated,, we had separate systems here in Delaware. Walleye 2 hrs ago #5

i was young and in catholic school rampartd 53 min ago #6

We kind of forget those vicious racists from the 60s are still with us. One of them is president. Walleye 36 min ago #7

I am so sorry Laurelin 3 hrs ago #3

Same reason as always, divide and conquer. usonian 3 hrs ago #4