1950s Black & White Kids Got Along

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Melvin considered himself an ordinary 1950s Washington DC guy. We interviewed him in 1989 as one of the characters for my television series, Making Sense Of The Sixties. He was frank and honest about what he remembered and how he felt about it at the time when this interview was made. Obviously not every man at that time felt like he did. But my experience interviewing hundreds of men at that time who had grown up in the 1950s and 1960s is that many more felt like Melvin then would admit to it in the 1990s when some level of political correctness and decency changed how men expressed their feelings and to some extent how they actually felt. Melvin describes hanging out on the street, something many did in the 1950s. Not being too impressed with the political movements of the 50s and the 60s. Staunchly anti-Communist and anti-Russian. Not into the sexual revolution. When I was doing my television series we did some research on what percent of the 60s generation, the baby boomers, felt that they were part of the 60s generation and participated in its activities, social or political. A very small percent were political activists during the 1960s. A much larger percent felt that they were part of the social cultural activities of that time - long hair - freer sex - marijuana - rock 'n' roll - more loose social activities then the moral rules parents and schools taught back in the 1950s. I call Melvin and "ordinary" guy because that is how he saw himself. He was a cabdriver for most of his working life and enjoyed it. Some ask about his accent. I believe he was raised in Delaware.

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Here is the entire interview with him - kzbin.info/www/bejne/hISXhoeVqZxmmJI

[@trustymccoolguy4259]

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[@cordellking6360]

​@@trustymccoolguy4259why they making things difficult

[@pinkthrall6038]

@@cordellking6360trolls linking horrible stuff

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

😅😅😅😅😅❤

[@rod1499]

​@@trustymccoolguy4259 yep they want to have censorship control and stop anything that goes against their agenda from going viral.

[@kb2x172]

Kids don't know hate, they're simply introduced.

[@Kc-dq7zj]

I was born in Oklahoma. We lived in an area where we were the only white family. There was a little girl I hung out with every day. We were around 6 years old. We were best friends. I came in after playing with her one day and told my dad that her and I were twins. He said, "Except you're the whitest white girl I've ever seen, and she's black as night." I remember being absolutely dumbfounded. I seriously didn't notice that we were different colors until he said that. It was something that just never entered my mind.

[@birdyghostly]

I know kids can be ruthless but I don’t think they can be prejudiced against people since they just don’t know better. It’s usually the parents that cause racism.

[@KingAztek]

You've obviously never met a child

[@KingAztek]

You've obviously never met a child

[@bitty_beastly47]

Introduced by getting jumped? By parents? By media and politicians? Go walk alone at 10 pm on a Friday night at your closest cities MLK Blvd and tell me you feel safe

[@justinfrye965]

Friends are friends!

[@EkarDGames]

:)

[@slatesempai]

Friends are Friends.

[@SerfsR-WE]

​@@slatesempai real people are blind to such nonsense to skin pigments. My buddy had it rough cause the bottle had gotten control of his mom so he came and lived with us till thing got better at home for them. It's been almost 55 years ago. Melvin Holly if anyone ever new him. Joined the Navy and always would pop in at moms house for years after.

[@maczorick5838]

Couldn't have said it better my friend!

[@Gir-Riff-raffe]

Crazy how trepidatious this feels. Only when we break the bonds of our programming will we ever be truly free.

[@sam_i_am_.]

It's not about being color blind. It's about seeing people as people. I wish more people understood this.

[@waccness449]

You can't view people as people without being colorblind. Because your color has nothing to do with anyone as a person. If you think your color has anything to do with your personhood, you are racist. Doesn't get any simpler than that

[@Mixedfairydust]

Omg the same. I'm mixed, I the racist jokes about me growing up was so sick. Yet I still love all 😊

[@calreeGAZA]

Exactly.. I never understood racism. I'm white and I've had several different friends from all backgrounds, and tbh I've had more POC friends than white friends. But I never thought about it.. I just treated people the same.. I didnt even have to be taught to it was like it was built into me. That's what humanity is 🤷‍♀️

[@lucakat9262]

​@@calreeGAZAso true!😊

[@nosedondeelmarsetermina]

​@@calreeGAZAit's almost like there are socio political issues at play making these things happen, and that you're little "why can't we all just get along" stick is actually belittling, simpleminded and unhelpful. The problem here is systemic and societal, it has nothing to do with whether or not individual people can get along with each other. If you talk to most racists for example, they will be very welcoming to minorities. Don't get me wrong they will say offensive things, have stereotypical beliefs etc. But their individual human empathy is not at question. The reason they believe what they believe has nothing to do with their individual empathy and everything to do with the societal mechanisms at play, and this "everyone just get along" bs doesn't actually help the situation. It might help someone who is outside of that circle and can see clearly but it isn't helping the people affected by these mechanisms. Whether or not you intend to help these people is irrelevant. What is relevant is the fact that we need to stop talking in these nebulous spiritual tones and more focusing on the actual reality that causes these feelings to occur.

[@Dimi374]

I grew up in Kentucky a young black kid, my best friend who always looked out for me and adored my Grandmother was Jimmy Dale a white kid two years my senior. He passed away years ago and I have never been close to someone other than my family. So many people aren’t like his family and mine. We were neighbors in a time we weren’t supposed to be we cared so much for each other like we were kinfolk, in my mind we were and always will be.

[@Mixedfairydust]

May he rest peacefully ❤

[@paulastarkey9973]

Beautiful.

[@thegrumpyhorticulturist]

My grandfather had a black friend growing up in the 50s. They even joined the service together. Army. Got deployed separately but wrote letters to each other always. I got to read a few of them. The memories they shared back and forth during wartime about simple dinners and crawfishing in the small ponds. ❤ Man, they just don't make people like that anymore.

[@Dimi374]

@@paulastarkey9973 ❤️

[@Dimi374]

@@thegrumpyhorticulturist Thank you for the lovely story. They sure don’t make them like they used to. We were moving up and forward, now it only seems like we are on the decline.❤️

[@tonynemcich1756]

Kids aren't racist until they are poisoned with hatred by the grown ups

[@jamesadamgleason9471]

Or until someone "else" is mean or abusive to them

[@Granuchit]

​@@jamesadamgleason9471someone "else"??? As to whom are you referring to? The whole idea of basing judgement of how you think every single person will act due to the actions of just one is pure ignorance and dumb. The pigmentation of skin could NEVER determine how someone will interact with you. Racism is taught by humans to make a sense of superiority about themselves as which every race can be held guilty of. This shows me just how low and weak of person they are. Blindness would cure racism, but I'm sure we'd then torture ourselves over vocal tone scrutiny or some other form of belittling.

[@dragonsdynamite6403]

Media*

[@dukecraig2402]

Or until it comes time to allowing the wrong color family to move into the neighborhood because they're worried about what it'll do to the value of their home. Yea, it's a shame people can't keep the same priorities after they grow up that they had when they were kids.

[@potentially__9445]

And media

[@dapog]

Shout out to all those moms for not forcing those kids to see differences and just allowing kids to be kids instead of poisoning their minds

[@Ih8nine]

Mom's are always going to be moms.

[@palepride7530]

I have so many black friends

[@daughteroftheHighest.]

@@crptniteJesus Loves you all. ✝️❤️♾️

[@WhiteRanger1298]

​@palepride7530 White lives matter my brother. Raise the white fist 👊 ✊️ of justice!

[@TheOfficialTarynTots]

That's how I was raised but I'm a different generation.

[@herenyahope8745]

Throughout segregation and slavery, there were always groups of people who knew it was wrong.

[@livingintheforest3963]

YES!!!!!

[@Jack-jp6ki]

And there were a lot more of those people than we are told. Look up bakens rebellion.

[@Mandi2727]

?

[@sammyhill69]

Most decent people did.

[@DavidWalkerappeal]

The vast majority approved or it wouldn’t exist

[@mstreemoon8117]

This was the way my grandmother describes her childhood.. Her father distinctly told her, "you never address or judge anyone by their skin color..." this was his response to her 4yr old question, "why is that brown man watching me". The rest of his response was, "his name is Mr. Williams and that's what you will call him". That's the story she told all of us grandkids.. And obviously her kids. I grew up such a way/place that when I encountered racism in the 6th grade I didn't know what it was (I'm a biracial 80s baby).

[@InuInugami]

Same about the not recognizing racism. Race was never brought up around me so I didn't really learn about it until I was in school, but it was presented as something that was over, so I never realized that one of our teachers was targeting us. I always just thought that we were slower than the other students, I never even questioned it.

[@mstreemoon8117]

@@InuInugami I was simply confused when I experienced it for the first time. I was told by peers that I had "jungle fever" for dating one of the 4 black guys in our school. But after my mom explained the term, I found it odd when then the same kids turned around and called me a w**b*ck bc they thought I was a Mexican. 🤦🏽‍♀️ (for context.. This was all in NC.. And my middle school was in an area with deep roots in the KKK.. So you know these were things they were learning at home.)

[@RogerTheil]

People these days like to paint people of the past (especially the 1950s and 1860s) as hateful, ignorant people, when that label really applies to them. Most young people seem to not realize that society back in the day functioned on respect and cooperation. If you grew up with people of other races in your circle, you often considered them friends and family, especially in the South. Sure, there were animosities and bad apples, but even up to the point when I was young, there were white and black families that lived next door and considered each other practically family SINCE the time of slavery because they were that close while one worked for the other.

[@mstreemoon8117]

@@RogerTheil exactly... The rest of what my grandmother's father explained to her was that, "he's watching you bc he's keeping an eye on you, to make sure you behave and you're safe." That watchful mans wife was also the woman who kept all the children in the neighborhood while everyone else worked. Everyone was very close! My grandmother grew up in a mill village. And although the mills wreaked havoc on their health... And their descendents... They brought a HUGE sense of community. In combination with that understood respect and common decency that ppl had, "we're all in this together". Working the same jobs trying to obtain the same goals in the sense of everyone wanted to create a better.. More stable life for them and their children. They knew in order to do that you must work together.. in the community much like they worked together in their jobs at the mill. ❤️💫

[@roaddawg3217]

​@@mstreemoon8117v Same here, I live in Pontiac Michigan, and in the 70s 80s we all lived and played together, while the parents worked making cars and trucks together, it was beautiful, and I am better off to have grown up that way❤

[@relsba]

Little kids will play with anyone. Racism has to be taught.

[@bmc9504]

The media helped create BLM and divided people more than ever.

[@austyndrums1993]

And boy they're teaching it nowadays.

[@jellojoe00]

He literally says they and them. I'm sure it was all great.

[@chap8080]

It doesn't have to be taught. I grew up in a area with lots of asians or Pakis az we grew to call them and I'll tell you for a fact they was and still are to this day incredibly racist and mean to white people ESPECIALLY the women and teenage girls. It's not racist when it's a matter of self preservation it's common sense. And no i don't hate all races and colors but I know for a fact from my own experiences that theirs nothing wrong with been wary of people from different backgrounds or cultures that don't respect us for what we are. Anyone that believes differently have been sheltered from the harsher sides of life and I'm happy for them but it's true, I'm sure many black people around the world will say the exact same thing about white people as sad as it is.

[@Ge0rge_0rwell]

​@@austyndrums1993 indeed they are, that is what crt was designed to do. Divide kids based on color, and specifically to teach kids that being white is bad. Yet you all blindly trust the people pushing it.

[@user-im1zi4sb4q]

I'm a 57 year old black male...my first best friend was a white kid who lived across the street from me named John john. I wish we could hear more stories like this.

[@CoreyWhalen]

Tell us some stories about you and John John growing up in the 70s!

[@Lilquixx]

Yes please give us some stories!

[@cutkitvid9548]

Funny there was a white family on our black streets and their last name was John. The girl had a little brother named John so of course everyone called him John John. He'd be about 60 now

[@EmeraldCityN3rd]

My uncle's best friend is black and I've only met him once in my life, but I now refer to him lovingly as Uncle Rage. My uncle passed in 2016, and he is the only person I have aside from my dad who had a close connection with him.

[@Peterbilt359]

I’m 61 1st girl I ever kissed was our black next door neighbor. 1st and 2nd I’d ever was with were black. I didn’t even think it was a thing. That was in CA. My 2nd wife and I before we married it came up that she dated black guys for long time. She said most white guys would have a problem with that. I was like why. We married a week later. Cancer got her 10 years later.

[@loganbrion1469]

Friendship is more powerful than prejudice.

[@elongatedmanforever1252]

yep Daryl Davis agrees.

[@Mithum52]

Daddy had a business from 1958 for almost 50 years. Every person, no matter the color or sex, got the same respect, service, as the mayor did. Everyone was the same. We loved the interaction with people, period.

[@xfom4008]

No rational person is going to be racist just for the sake of it. Its bad for business, bad for your mind and bad for your soul.

[@phynx1760]

Thank you so much for sharing this, it gives me much needed hope

[@Mithum52]

@@phynx1760 well I hate to say this, and you might already know that, there weren't many places like "M.....'s Service". There wasn't another like it on the planet. I was so blessed to be a part of it! It really is the reason I am the person I am today.

[@conjured_up_skeletons6178]

My dad ran a burlesque/brothel house. He treated all employees the same and even gave them a Christmas bonus every year.

[@Mithum52]

@@conjured_up_skeletons6178 completely different animal. .. service, ethic, intention, result. Sounds like a fuk't up deal to me. Just saying.

[@psychshell4644]

My son's black friends called me Momma. They're nearly 30 years old now and are still my kids.

[@elenaarman-tang7811]

🥰

[@Eso100]

Late 90's is a bit different, But you're a good woman❤❤

[@P00LI]

Maybe you’ll be their baby momma one day too

[@psychshell4644]

@P00LI I don't think so. They're married, and that's gross.

[@P00LI]

@@psychshell4644 why you don’t you want black babies? Racist

[@RAYMOND169]

I am 80 years old grew in public housing I ate at my black friends apartment they had dinner at mine to this day we are still good friends

[@MicahScottPnD]

❤

[@elsajones6325]

​@thierryparte2506what? How old are YOU? Are you one of those who thinks that life ends at 30 yrs old? Not everybody is in the condition of the countries "commander" in chief🙄

[@elsajones6325]

@thierryparte2506 oh sweetie, I was born in 1949, same as your grand parents💝

[@elsajones6325]

@thierryparte2506 I was a military wife, worked for the phone company (retired), drove 18 wheelers cross country, and I can still kick ass and take names. I still drive all over the country in my van. But am disappointed that I can no longer drive continuously for 17 hrs.

[@ImmaStealYaMa83]

@thierryparte2506my grandma is on yt she 76 she comments on everything yo 💀 so what ur point?

[@eddiesimms9301]

Gee...I remember those days as a little 4yr old boy, living in Seattle Wa. I grew up in the Yesler Terrence Housing Projects and I had a mixture of white, Native American Idians and Asian. The year was 1962 and life for me as a little black kid was FUN !!....What was so IMPORTANT about that time was Parents would LOOK after each other's kids......

[@gohawks3571]

Question: you may not have the answer, and it's a weird question 😁 I used to live by the Northgate mall & walked around Green Lake. Eventually someone told me back in the 60s people were naked & high hanging out there(at Green Lake). Couldn't imagine that, being the total opposite in the days I was there. Can you tell me if there's any truth to that? I realize you were little, and far away. Thanks in advance ✌️

[@lydiapetra1211]

That had to be so nice... parents should do the same today too...

[@deelee4639]

There is a nude beach called Denny Blaine off lake Wa ​@@gohawks3571

[@tamsolo1584]

Just mamas making sure all the kids got fed, because in the end, we're all family. ❤

[@mattjohn2782]

Now, Trump and his MAGA maggots think he is too "woke". Even their god loving pastors think Jesus Christ is a "woke" idiot

[@ryan_pawloski]

Truth

[@stevebowldeep69]

I spent first 20 years of life believing this but turns out everyone hates eachother, gotta see things for how it really is not a fantasy or illusion, not even most genetically related family's are treating eachother as family let alone strangers and complete different cultures communities? Please correct me if I'm wrong but that's all I see on this site for example and in real world its just cold heartless place only a few good good people left maybe?

[@mjohnson4568]

❤❤

[@Chaliceofwine]

Government made us all racist

[@DeD2me]

That's cause no human is born to hate but rather taught to do so.

[@luhtlakk]

not true i have racist friends who’s parents aren’t racist some ppl just are independent thinkers and genuinely start believing bad things whether that’s racism or anything else

[@jenniferpreiser]

Grew up the same way, the 70's had a whole different flavor.

[@themanifestorsmind]

80s too. Heck even the 90s. Something changed in the past 20 years. It's like we went back 80 years instead.

[@MichaelSmith-fu3bm]

As a Jamaican immigrant..in high School...the kid that showed me the most kindness was a white Italian kid that played soccer on the team with me named Spiro..im 52 years old now and i still remember him so fondly👍👍

[@stardustgirl2904]

That's really sweet ❣️

[@marial3231]

@@stardustgirl2904wanted to say the same thing as you, very sweet!! ❤

[@leadfarmer9396]

Exception isn't the rule

[@madaxwayne]

​@@leadfarmer9396always one victim

[@King_Edwards1605]

You all come here looking to worship white people anyway.

[@Royce88]

This is exactly how I grew up. 80s/90s Black girl in an all while neighborhood. I knew the inside and out of all the houses within a mile around me.. stayed and played with all the kids. It was never a thought that someone didn’t like me for my skin….im sorry for those that didn’t get the opportunity to do the same!

[@sakitoby1581]

That's how it SHOULD be. Kids being kids, having fun, and adults not being a-holes who poison children's minds with bigotry.

[@lovealways2609]

marry me?..

[@DanMurphy-zq5ll]

We are all Gods children. Ty for sharing

[@user-kh6yw2wi1s]

Sadly black people wont let that happen desperate to divide as they want to feel special over racism ​@sakitoby1581

[@andrewfalconer8599]

Then what happened when you grew up? Did you finally start noticing the racism then?

[@darrelduke]

this is how i was raised. we called them 'porch moms', they (white, black and latino) made sure to always look out for the children unless you were an asshole. it is a valuable lesson i (and my mother) have carried with me to this day.

[@OwaissaAltheaDickey]

I love and respect everyone who treated all kids decent and let them just be kids and friends with each other 💕💕💕💕☮️☮️☮️☮️👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@bowiewaters9335]

I'm originally from Illinois and my grandfather (who was white) was in WW2 and part of the Grestest Generation of America and his best friend since childhood until he died was a black man and they loved each other like brothers . ❤

[@icallmysugarcandy]

“We never thought about it.” And that’s how it should be.❤

[@dagneytaggart7707]

A real community.

[@osonhouston]

The people at the top don't want there to be solidarity between poor and working class people. They divide us by race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and anything else that could divide us.

[@austerejenings6979]

Exactly

[@mostlysunny582]

But today all we do is talk about it in our society. Why?

[@mariahc6888]

Yes!😊❤

[@edr.3229]

I can remember my father and mother telling me the same thing this man is speaking about here in Philly. I grew up in the 70's and 80's had a few black friends from school and we use to stop over my Grandmother's house and she would feed all of us. The crazy thing about Italian Grandmother's is that they could feed an Army in no time!!! Lol!!!👍👍👍

[@latonyarhodes4246]

it’s funny that black grandmothers and Italian grandmothers are like this! Mine would do the same, even after everyone was grown and separated. She would cook like she was cooking for a firehouse or something and then she would fix plates and give them to the neighbors and even folks walking down the street. She said that she didn’t know how to cook small amounts (she also had 7 kids and nieces that she raised. So I understood. 😂❤😊. Rest in peace, granny! 🙏🏽🫶🏽🤍🕊️

[@edr.3229]

@@latonyarhodes4246 your absolutely right. You could wonder where the heck they stored all that food. Lol!!! God bless all our Grandmother's. Can't wait to see mine again one day when my time has come.🙏🙏🙏

[@AdVictoriamBOS]

What the history books won’t teach is how many stories like this there truly were!

[@user-dc9oq2pr6v]

Fax them mofo history books and media make it seem like dudes was Killin each other 24/7

[@rafiaahabbas3935]

Because they were raised right, and you were raised right as well. Thats how it should be❤

[@marcychan168]

Amen

[@slaphappyscreech529]

And yet that era is painted as the most racist and sexist of times. its ridiculous

[@BenDover-qg1mw]

It depends. If he is from the south thats very good teaching, if he's from the north then thats just normal

[@user-gi1dc5de2t]

It it’s because there wasn’t an internet.😂

[@Tellingthetruth-gr9nx]

I guess they don’t read crime statistics

[@danapriess8860]

I love this. It reminds me of the good old days when neighbors took care of each others children. I really miss those days

[@_vez]

The good ol' days when your wife didn't have food she would get the black eye

[@carlinejohnson3057]

Yeah the good old days..when neighbors took care of each other's kids, like Emmett Till.

[@stephenrice4554]

Me too

[@jmika539]

In this generation they call socialism. Is not good for the economy. ❤😂

[@noctislockhart7893]

@@_vez, always that one weird dork having bring up something completely irrelevant. Yes, there were bad things about said time period, but that’s not what the person was talking about. Go be a dork elsewhere.

[@localboy4584]

People aren’t born prejudiced, it’s learned behavior.

[@Sydroo1969]

One of my best friends is black. We met in junior high in the 80s. We lost touch for several years. Found each other again about 15 years ago. We don't care about color either. I call her my sister from a different mister. Yes, I have other black friends. She's very special to me as well as her children. God made us all. We all bleed red.

[@johnconley2447]

My parents got raised around racism. They themselves aren't afraid to use slurs. They taught me that i shouldn't do what they do. This is the biggest factor to lessening racism as a whole. Teach it's wrong and don't obsess over it

[@Caterina...3]

EXACTLY! I grew up in an area that was Italian, black and Cuban. We played with each other, our parents watched out for all of us and made sure we were all safe. We weren't raised to see a difference. I'm so grateful we were raised the way we were and are all still friends!!!

[@holayou2241]

Just the way God intended it ❤

[@grandpalarry2576]

Cuba mentioned= comment liked

[@xerozx2]

that’s because italians aren’t white either

[@zephyr_924]

New York?

[@elizabethgeorge168]

Yep. My best friend was Mexican and I spent more time there than at my own home. Her family and I could barely communicate but we were still family 😊

[@DrJoonPark]

My mom used to get in trouble as a kid for using the water fountain labeled "colored". She said she always thought the water would come out looking like a rainbow

[@elenaarman-tang7811]

Love it 🌈💧💧💧

[@MethodiousMind]

Aww

[@Tellingthetruth-gr9nx]

What a stupid comment

[@joschmo1007]

My grandmother said she thought the same thing, and then one of my uncles, one of her sons, always did and thought the same thing. She was white, grew up in Iowa, and told us cousins about the first time she saw "a black man," when she was about three. She grew up on a farm in the country and hadn't been to town, yet. As she and her mother were walking down the sidewalk he walked by them in the opposite direction. She told us she said, in the typical high volume of a three-year-old "look, momma! A chocolate man," and he just started belly laughing. We asked what she thought of him (because she had never seen someone like him before), and she said "I was just thrilled God had made us in more than one flavor."

[@ericbacheller2154]

Never really had racism growing up, we were too poor to afford white privilege.

[@BigEmPe]

I met my brothers from another mother back in kindergarten. Im 27 now and we are still neighbors and brothers to this day. We did everything from summer camp, sports, hosted our own X Games off the cheap plastic ramps and go flying 10 feet in the air on our bikes, skateboards or rollerblades. I would roll my Basketball hoop down my steep driveway and we would play all day long till our parents made us come inside cuz it was dark😂

[@ginnywalter9382]

We are not born hating one another. That is taught.

[@michellepayne454]

I grew up in the projects in louisville, Kentucky in the 70's and the blacks and the whites played together, ate dinner and spent the night at each others homes. On the weekends the adults both black and white would be playing cards and cooking out together. Nobody acted like they were different than the other person back then. We knew we were all the same, POOR PEOPLE!!!

[@edgarvalencia7523]

Man you said it took the words right out of my mouth the same the same poverty doesn't care what what color background crazy what happens when money gets involved people think they're better than each other but when we in the same body of water drowning a true American won't watch their neighbors drown ..... I may not be that old I was born in 87 and things were still the same.we did not care about color it was all about ethnicity we got ethnicity was cool cuz we got to taste different kinds of bomb ass food . That truly came from from one soul and man it was one of the mamas food we all knew we were in for a treat

[@grownwoman3000]

Yes that's the way it was at our house I'm smiling at that memory ❤

[@travr6]

Louisville KY literally had major race riots in the late 60's and early 70's. I'm from Louisville. Louisville in the early 70's was extremely racist.

[@RotimiTimothyOnayemi-Novels]

Really?

[@KevinTkt14]

​@@travr6I'm from eastern Kentucky and we all got along for the most part, I didn't see people act a different way towards another person due to skin color until I moved to central Kentucky, around Lexington and Louisville

[@user-ni6wm1uc4x]

I grew up in the 70s/80s near a Great Woman named May. I was probably 10 years old and she was probably 90. Made my breakfast on a woodstove .She fed me and took care of me when needed. That black lady was all heart and love. I still love her with all my heart.

[@hugocorreia8039]

You probably gave her a good reason to live. You gave her a purpose in her late years

[@rainforme1850]

I absolutely love the story reminds me of being about seven years old and my mom went to visit somebody with her friend who lived there, so my mom and her friend were both white and the resident was black. Nobody thought a thing of it one of the boys who lived there, decided it be fun if we all went to the playground. But I couldn’t find my way back home and every door I knocked on an African-American woman, came to the door and looked at my whiteness and said no I don’t know where your mom is but when I started crying, she walked me up and down to help me get back to my mom. Do you think I noticed color when I needed somebody to reassure me. This is how it’s supposed to be just to mom’s taking care of the kids because it’s dinner time and that’s how it should be.

[@danikstebakov3652]

🥲😭

[@jonslg240]

Dayum Walter White has gotten old! (That voice 😂)

[@Taller-yl9yn]

The way it should be❤

[@stargazer408.]

This is how we grew up, we were all neighborhood kids and we're still friends to this day .

[@evalynbrown7810]

Exactly still my best friends

[@ingalani500]

Same!!!! Mama flo was the block mama she took care of all of us when we was outside. Playing & she had the most kids. On the block lol I love and miss them days I appreciate it so much! Childhood was lit there was a kid in almost every house and I’m so happy to see us all grow my parents still have that house til this day & some of my childhood friends do too some moved

[@evalynbrown7810]

@@ingalani500 yes same here my house was the spot my mom even fought for custody twice for friends we had being abused at home and won she was EVERYONE'S mom

[@ingalani500]

@@evalynbrown7810 now that I have kids I welcome their friends & look out for them also established good relationships with their parents just because I knew what it was Like to have that it’s the best feeling and that’s why I been living my in the same house all these years my son is 17 he has the same friends growing up went to same schools and they are graduating this year all together it was. The same for me. As for my husband he moved around a lot so he hella loves that I have “block related” friends lol and that my kids do too ❤️ he wish he had that instead he’s the papa of the neighborhood lol

[@texasbeast239]

As kids we played with action figures from different planets, like dinosaur men and fish men and bird men, mixing figures from Masters of the Universe and Star Wars and Transformers. So Black and White totally didn't even register on our radar. Probably the most that was ever said of it was, "Cool, what's your super-power?" 😂

[@charlesfarley6500]

It's called "poverty", and poverty is color blind.

[@wifeymommy4242]

He isnt lying. My granny fed everybody including mom and pops and Now i feed everyone too ❤

[@taweehill]

Good, what time is dinner I could eat! 😂😂 One love.

[@wifeymommy4242]

@@taweehill dinner is at 6:00pm every night 💚

[@jonathanhumphrey4143]

Feed me some milk Mommy😗

[@ivancampbell8123]

Depends where he live in Mississippi that was not true

[@ivancampbell8123]

@@jasminehouston-burns1691 Jim Crow in the southern states oh my God read books and watch documentaries I don't have to be old

[@42t16]

In the 70's I was in 1st and 2nd grade and my very first bff was black. I am white. We never thought twice about it. Her family moved away. I'm 55 now and I still think about her. ❤

[@BloodDragon592]

My man tell me what you can, if I find anything I'll get back to you. Friendships never die as long as ypu always look forward to the next meeting

[@christianvennemann9008]

With the internet, you might be able to look her up. My grandpa had a buddy from WWII and hadn't spoken to him in DECADES, and I managed to look his friend up. My grandpa later called me to thank me because he and his friend spoke for over 2 hours on the phone, catching up after all those years

[@42t16]

@@christianvennemann9008 that is so absolutely wonderful ❤️ I'm grateful you were able to reconnect them. I could only imagine how happy that made him.

[@christianvennemann9008]

@42t16 It was a wonderful experience. My grandpa passed away 4 years ago at age 93 (I have no clue if his WWII friend is still alive; if so, he'd at least be in his upper 90s by now), but that's one of my favorite memories with him. I believe this was about 2 years before he died. It's still one of my fondest memories with him, along with one time when I was on spring break and visited him and we wound up talking for about 3 hours

[@42t16]

@christianvennemann9008 that will be something you will look back on with love for the rest of your life. I'm sure it meant more to him than he could ever say. ❤️ I thought about looking for my friend about 10 years ago, but I only knew her by her nickname, Angel, and I don't remember her last name. My parents have passed away so I wasn't able to ask them. Not all of the school records from the 70s made it. But she was my very first BFF when I was a child. Keep being a kind and thoughtful person. I know your grandpa was proud of you. ❤️

[@brickthered5919]

When anything is “forced” it falls apart.

[@superredman35]

That's how it's supposed to work...great story!

[@rojo1193]

I'm white, and my grandmother's best friend was black. They were best friends in the '40s and '50s. My grandmother died when I was very young, and her best friend became a surrogate grandmother. I would always get excited when we would stop by her house. She lived to be 99 and died on Christmas Day the same year that my mother died. They didn't see the color. The two women like each other and got a long, and the kids would all play with each other and spend time at each other's house and nobody thought of color. When I had my first child and I lived in a different part of the state, my aunt called me and told me " Mom Catherine says you better bring that baby down to see her " that was what we called her. I miss her.

[@JKqueening]

I am reading this and my eyes are very teary.

[@mauimeowi]

Find another way to say you don't judge someone for their color of skin other than "I don't see color". We all see color. You have to see color to recognize how some people are treated differently for it.

[@romishafranks]

Oh please. This is what white people think but it isn't the reality of the dynamic

[@R3dOcktoba]

Great story 🥹 Sounds like something my Auntie would say.🥲

[@R3dOcktoba]

​@@mauimeowiThis was not the time for that buzzkill. He told it from the ❤. This is not CNN. Please chill. I'm black and I love this story. Cause I had friends like him when i was a kid.

[@Megahertz_12]

I’m white and my neighbors were black. Their daughter was my baby sitter. She took me to see the last dragon and purple rain in the theater. They were family and will always loved and respected.

[@tequilamokkingbyrd2016]

The Last Dragon with Bruce leeRoy

[@markrushing4584]

This was the same for me except to be honest one of my friends didn't grow up with a father and he had lots of brothers and sisters like I did so his mom couldn't real afford to invite others for dinner.

[@BigJoon0412]

Big difference between the 1950's and the 1980's 😅

[@crackawood]

My black friend's mom would front me crack to sell

[@Bucktanner77]

Vanity deliciosa !❤! Debarge - Rhythm of the Night muy rico

[@sookie4195]

My best buddy was Euel Tapp. He had a team of mules. I rode with him on his old wagon every chance I got. RIP MR. Tapp

[@jakemac875]

My best friend, my brother is black. Is is the Uncle and God-Father to my children. And he handles that role with more drive than my brother i was raised with

[@unmellowyellow]

Regular, decent people. I miss them.

[@aaron-ooog-5757]

💯💯

[@calebbeery2538]

No kidding

[@biglobowski7885]

We all still here.. Just social media has distorted the western worlds view of society. Controlled by Liberal media. Divide and conquer is their mantra

[@dustinsykes2671]

People are weirdos now lol

[@gSWG3R]

Why do so many of you regurgitate this dribble? You probably weren't even born before the integration of Black and White people in educational, occupational, and geographic contexts. Honestly, do you really think decency suddenly just ceased to exist? 😅, so unbelievably unintelligent.

[@Lucky_Male_Bee]

That was my neighborhood in the 80s & 90s. We came in all colors, races & sizes. We didn't have a lot of money but we were all raised right & if one of us had it, we all had it.

[@HunterBidensCrackDealer]

I grew up in the projects black white and Latinos and race wasn't even a thought. This was in the early/mid2000s

[@InstrumentalEgoDeath]

​@Alessandro.Resendez The only people who see color are the ones who make the projects (and other seclusion methods) everyone else simply exist as people🙏

[@randmayfield5695]

Sounds like my family. With what we had, my parents were generous to a fault. "What goes out the front door returns twice fold or more through the backdoor" .... a common axiom heard frequently when growing up.

[@1Flyingfist]

Exactly, i don't know what tf is going on these days. 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@rosshugecaulk]

People will eventually realize that all the race violence today is perpetuated and hyped up by the media. This is how everyone acts, no human is naturally hateful towards another human. That's not how humans work.

[@paulp1a]

As it should always be. We all got our differences in culture, but any way you slice it, we part of the human race.

[@WakeupAmerica777]

Love knows no colors. ✝️

[@aleksandrasialtsis4382]

Amen! God is love and love is blind, people say. God bless!

[@user-fl1kp1iw6y]

This is how I run my household today. Friends are friends. All are welcome until the respect and trust is broken.

[@dannyvanore]

I grew up in the 60’s & 70’s and our neighborhood was the same way! The best!

[@Ripen3]

I think most places was like that but we're still accused of racism all the time to this day.

[@Its6string]

This holds true for many of us!! Growing up in NJ was just that way-it seemed like everyone knew everyone in one way or another-especially in school & sports-it wasn’t a problem!!! Thank God!! Even today, our grandkids still have the same friends, who are the grandkids of the people we know!!! Once again, I think it’s awesome!!!

[@mstyles2667]

I am 43 born and raised in NJ and have said the same thing my whole life about growing up in NJ! By age 5 I had black, white, Filipino, Chinese, Pakistani/Arabic friends. Ir was amazing and the rest of my life my friend group was always super diverse and fun. LOVED IT!

[@bigdaddy501]

60 years old. I ate and played with friends of all colors in the 1970s'

[@jaxsienplays9884]

Segregation was already over in the 70s tbf

[@J_ismyname48]

​@@jaxsienplays9884he never said anything about segregation in the video

[@TicklesTrout]

What would your parents do if your sister was dating a black dude

[@kayc2579]

Not really​@@jaxsienplays9884

[@Thegreatesttoneverlive]

​@@TicklesTrout😂😂

[@loanokaharbor8303]

Kids of ALL races got along UNTIL somebody told them they weren't suppose to "get along".

[@norml.hugh-mann]

Yeah..their parents

[@BOT_JERRY]

The south will rise again

[@steamgent4592]

@@norml.hugh-mannsometimes it was teachers and principals not the parents. I remember a few from my school days

[@imanoldurango8213]

@@steamgent4592damn I didn’t become mildly racist until a group of grown ass black men tried to rob me as a 10year old all because I was wearing a gold chain I had gotten for me birthday. But “SURE” I had to be told to be racist 😂😂😂😂

[@notannie4798]

Lol, that s true, Jim Crow is actually a conspiracy from the left 😂

[@user-gn4by4bp7g]

KOOL... you all should have kept it GOING... STOPPED THE HATE...ITS STILL AROUND...

[@0000Endgfgv]

Friends Will Be Friends!

[@PistolP33]

Politicians hate this guy, but we love him

[@turbosoggyleninist]

He has the same rhetoric as them..

[@Chimera_166]

Liberals hate him

[@Ivanlois383]

Why would they hate him? Legit question

[@StartHereNow]

​@@Ivanlois383 Democrats need us to be divided

[@Ivanlois383]

@@StartHereNow that’s what they told you?

[@apoolofwomen]

My grandpa grew up in south chicago in the 40s and 50s...the neighborhoods were Italian polish and black all seperated by a street or so. He talks about sneaking away from his neighborhood to go meet his friends at the train track and sing doo op tunes....i guess it was a black boy a Hispanic boy and my grandpa a polish boy!!! He said they would meet up and sing tunes together!!!

[@swannoir7949]

That was South Chicago. Not the Southside of Chicsgo, where that would not have happened.

[@gatorade1968]

Italians are not Hispanic

[@TheRadioKid_tt]

@@swannoir7949why is that?

[@ShellyCampbell-rh4el]

That's so incredibly wholesome

[@kevintucker3354]

Very cool story!

[@ellap8231]

Friendship is never conditional on colour. Nothing should ever be conditional on colour of our skin.

[@joeavent5554]

My best friend in 2nd grade happened to be black. We were both nerds that prefered not to play sports. We wore eyeglasses and roamed the playground conversing about important things. We never discussed color once. We had higher priorities to speak about. I am saddened that I do not recall his name. I am 61. This occurred in Hobbs, NM.

[@alienabuser3693]

And that’s exactly how life is supposed to be❤

[@keem3794]

​@@dwillbecancelledsoon4086now let's look at child r*pe stats 🙄🙄

[@Woody6166]

@@dwillbecancelledsoon4086boooooo, You suck. It’s literally about kids playing together

[@websmoking]

@@dwillbecancelledsoon4086 you have a pretty deluded brain

[@SirFunky]

I beg your Pardon​@@dwillbecancelledsoon4086

[@bitofbrownshuga3061]

I grew up the same way in the 70s. Everyone's mom was everyone's mom .😊 And we looked out for eachother.

[@MrAllegiant1]

That is so truthful. I’ve been loved, doted, and disciplined by so many neighbor moms So I just naturally became neighbor dad

[@lorriemcgee5562]

Born in 62, lived on the same street over 20 years. It didn't matter what color you were, what mattered was a good heart. The people on my street weren't just neighbors, they were family. ❤

[@spencermarkham1]

When kids are more mature and human than the supposed “adults” are!

[@jodys5851]

Same in our hood!! Every kid was everybody's kid. We all looked out for each other. Never had a thought about it♥️

[@persiandollda1st579]

I think most of the hoods in the 50 s were segregated so ...

[@serpentines6356]

Exactly. BLM has politicized everything and is trying to destroy unity. They want segregation again. Awful.

[@vosaemify]

​@@persiandollda1st579no one cares what you think.

[@thisissparta7782]

Grew up in New York city in the 80’s and 90’s. Our crew was the Dominican brothers, the Puerto Rican brothers, a Mexican/Nicaraguan, an Italian/Irish, my brother and I the Greeks, and our black friends Nija and Jerry. We had the best childhood ever and race wasn’t even a thought. We just lived and built strong bonds. Still tight 30 years later

[@bzm0304]

So cool...!!!

[@shannonly23]

That’s how it should be. ❤. New Yorkers are a different breed man. When 9/11 happened we were all in awe of you all. The strength and sense of community and love you all shared was astonishing. When people around the world think of the stereotypical “American” I bet they think of the Midwest. But they should think of New York.❤🤍💙

[@mkedmusa9416]

#Facts! Even though they knew what time it was...they did not society set in!

[@andyhill2876]

I grew up in NYC in 70s and go to Pelham NY right outside of Mount Vernon NY and it was different , but we did have white friends and I personally protected them from thugs

[@laurastabell2489]

I❤NY! Everybody gets along! Dont believe the negative media! Its a great place!

[@mr.yellowstrat3352]

You don't have to go back that far. Growing up in the 90's and early 2000's was similar for me. I had a black friend that lived with me at my mother's house temporarily because his home life was miserable and we're still good friends today.

[@lisagrace4355]

Back in the 1970s my best friend was black and I love her till this day.. mostly white town white school yet I never saw anyone pick on her or call her names she was a funny young girl I think we were around 9 being best of friends. It’s the way it should be.

[@pennysimmons841]

You always offer to feed any children who come to your home, or any adult if its dinner time, its just what I was taught to do, I was also taught to say “no thank you “ if they offered me dinner, its time for me to go home. ❤❤❤

[@kamurashops]

Just not in Sweden lol

[@audreyfreeman4208]

Aww XD by

[@williammurry461]

One of My dearest friends was black and more than 50 yrs later We're still best friends !!

[@lilinsulatorchick9665]

I think racism is spoon fed to people Luckily, we have finally started solidifying a harmonious world. We're well on the way

[@tkingtut9079]

Same here.

[@themoongateofficial]

One of my earliest best friends was a mixed boy named Devin, haven’t seen him in years when schools got changed for us but man I hope he’s still doing good out there

[@sambeltram8711]

I miss my friend from grade school , he was the fastest sprinter in our class . Hope he's doing well and happy . If you're out there Ali , Hello old friend . I always remember when we were young

[@evonnehartline1420]

As a child I grew up in SF. The poor side. All the kids that lived in public housing were brothers and sisters. We ate at each other’s’ homes, played the simple games kids played back then (50’s and 60’s), the stayed overnight at each other’s homes and when I think of those times, it makes me happy. Where did those days go? I loved my childhood, didn’t know anything else. I’m glad my mother taught us kids to love our friends, no matter their color. My kids and grandchild respect their friends, and love them as I loved my friends. I’m waiting for my first great grandchild, and God grant me time to teach my new baby what I was taught. 🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@steveadams4983]

Hey I grew up in s.f. also my family is Irish..my grandma lived in Sunnydale projects...she had 11 kids ..but I used to stay at her concrete condo .that's before crack took over ..but I used to go to the corner store play out side with other kids never had any problems.

[@Heladio54]

You're just awesome.

[@ReneeG-ls8fy]

That's how it was in San Francisco

[@anti1training]

GOD BLESS YOU AMEN!!!🙏🏼❤️👑

[@lisaclark6134]

I remember those days too. I miss them!!

[@dmidkiff66]

I lived just outside Huntington WV, we did the same thing. My brother's best friend was black, his dad had a garage with every tool you could think of. We all had Mopars. His dad kept half the neighborhoods cars running right. He also gave advice about women, cars, life. He was a big influence on my life and the lives of so many teen boy. He always had a message of morales and respect. Of all the people I regret loosing, he is only topped by my dad. A man like that only comes into your life if you are lucky. I will never forget the love and support he gave everyone of us. Didn't matter the color of our skin, how much money we had, he just loved us! I just relized I am crying finishing this.

[@gypsy414]

Got me in tears 2😢😢❤❤❤ God bless that man and you, for sharing.

[@lakishabastian6713]

I got happy goose bumps also... thanks for sharing.. that gave me great feelings ❤

[@JohnnyLandscape]

What's his name? Post it so we can read it and he will hear us calling and know people are thinking of him.

[@davids5006]

I live outside of Huntington now, well hurricane to be exact and my neighbor is a Midkiff 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@miskawalter2581]

That's when men were men and knew their priority. Didn't have the internet having them question every little thing. Don't get me wrong the internet is a great thing if you use I right but every good thing has a bad side too.

[@dannyphelps9440]

I'm 59 I was in the Boy Scouts and was the only white boy . In the 70s the best time's of my life.

[@brandyyolidio4213]

Kids have the most pure, non biased, accepting hearts on the planet ❤

[@davenagle8743]

I'm 73 still have same Hispanic friend since 1957

[@theresalogsdon765]

Yep, that's how it was and should be now. Friends are Friends.

[@nickpanagon5705]

That’s the way it still is. Media and politics pervaded our world through our phones, television, and movies. They create and exacerbate problems to get viewership / $. We are the same under the eyes of God. Let’s all meet more people. Be blessed.

[@easymoneysniper9013]

Yeah no it wasn't lmao

[@theresalogsdon765]

@easymoneysniper9013 I Beg to Differ. We had everyone in our Neighborhood. We had no Problems

[@MrDlt123]

​@theresalogsdon765. Dont waste your time. Racists always see only race.

[@easymoneysniper9013]

@@theresalogsdon765 yeah life was paradise for WHITE PEOPLE only

[@cannedpineapple2702]

Im white and i grew up like this, it's super good for kids. I literally didnt even realize there was anything "different" between us.

[@zgoosekeeper]

Same. Growing up, we didn’t care. Honestly never thought about it. If you could throw a baseball, pass a football or ride a bike… you were in. If you had a Nintendo, you were the man.

[@Nohandleneeded101]

So lucky to have had a friendship like that.

[@user-th3ln6gl6t]

How it's just normal FFS basically lucky to have friends pmsl 😅😅😅

[@l.5462]

@@user-th3ln6gl6the prolly older mate you sounding like a lil child

[@user-th3ln6gl6t]

@@l.5462 your sounding like a Gimp

[@l.5462]

@@user-th3ln6gl6t you are so cringe

[@isarainie4ever]

@@user-th3ln6gl6t not just any friends, but the friendship lasts decades and still beautiful is “lucky”.

[@Lmr6973]

I'm 54 and grew up and still live here in the south near a black community. We lived,played, and ate at each other's house growing up also. Still friends to this day with those who are still around. Good people are good people regardless of their skin color.

[@catherinepierce1622]

I grew up in the fifties, and it was the same way. We never questioned it. We were friends plain and simple. Good times.

[@SQTierHog]

During my childhood, in the late '60s, I lived in the housing authority. My single mother, with the rest of the single mothers. We all played, and like this man said, if we were in one apartment and they were eating, we would eat too. It was incredible, that is where I would learn about the different 'types' of music. Only later on in school, did I hear a filthy word. I didn't know it was, until I repeated it to my mother after school. I still got the wooden spoon.

[@seanwhite658]

When it’s done right it’s seamless and natural. I have similar stories from my youth

[@0IIIIII]

What do you mean if it’s done right? Has it been done wrong?

[@ryanthomas2374]

​​@@0IIIIIIwell you sound white.. which today makes you racist... see how it is done today?

[@someone7554]

@@0IIIIII No, but people like to imply that there’s a “wrong” way because they’re segregationists

[@normified]

I didn't know what race was till I was 13. That was 5 years ago. I'm not exaggerating. I was literally not introduced to race and never even thought about it, I just knew some people were different colors. That's it being done "right".

[@someone7554]

@@normified Would you describe yourself as “colorblind”?

[@samfragale1632]

I had a great friend who was black and we never thought anything of it. One day he tells me that his mom told him he can't be my friend anymore. I asked what happened and he told me it was because I was white. Really hurt me and I am 70 now and still think of it.

[@Fr4cturedMind]

Yes, and she/the family, was likely harassed or otherwise got negative attention from racists due to it

[@elainamoor3218]

@@Fr4cturedMindNow you’re just assuming you don’t know

[@bres.4806]

​@@elainamoor3218 I mean if they were friends all that time and then all of a sudden she tells her son he can't what the hell do you think happened?

[@askandanswer1503]

​@bres.4806 she wants her child to prefer their own

[@lisat9707]

Racist mom😢 hugs,!

[@ceciliovasquez3269]

I got friends that are different races but i doesn’t matter because we all grew up together it made us like brothers

[@syoudipta]

It's not a race thing, it's a class thing.

[@kingmaafa120]

Esp in them homeless areas 👍

[@mysticalfitzy9844]

We are born with love in our hearts and taught poisoned hate.

[@CoolGuy-pn1vm]

Black supremacy is the new largest domestic threat in america. Possibly tied with the deep state, but they do work in unison.

[@dud3655]

Though humans are born with a natural hatred for difference, it does not mean that we must act upon it. One hundred thousand years ago everything was trying to murder us and us them, it was a different time, back then it was wise to be fearful of the unknown, however, one hundred thousand years later can you truly say we need this irrational retardation anymore? One country split the atom and put a man on the moon, imagine what the whole of humanity can do! Tell you what, we're so obsessed with this tiny blue dot and the imaginary borders we draw on our maps that we are blind to the truth, that none of it matters. When you look up at the night sky, what are those curious little lights shining bright? Yes, the stars, oh so far away and yet so familliar, I would like my grand kids to walk among them, exploring the millionth island of the millionth planet of the millionth star of the millionth galaxy, but we are too foolish to realize what we could achieve, humanity's hand is grasping the earth in its violent fist, if it simply let go, it could be reaching for the stars instead.

[@samuelbishop1701]

I don't know about that. If humans were innately good none of this would have veer happened. Who taught the first racism after all?

[@sovietbanana4589]

@@samuelbishop1701racism in the us at least to my knowledge originated in the indentured servitude system. After a series of uprisings the upper class made it a strategy to divide the indentured servants and slaves. After this a system of white supremacy was established and thus leading to the institutionalized racism of the south. And having it institutionalized also made it so that people with little exposure to minorities growing up would think of them as inferior. Overall it’s a class derived issue and not some dumb concept like muh human nature.

[@John19349]

It's a great way to bring children up with honesty and love and respect

[@angiebusbee1083]

This is how I remember my childhood. Early 70's

[@richardmihelic799]

There mothers spoke the world wide language of mothers and never ever once considered race when putting food in those kids belly, thats beautiful to say the least.

[@pandamaec]

this was me in the 90s too, but i never took to the ox tail my Haitian friend parents would serve. i didnt cry and throw a tantrum, or speak ill of their customs, or refuse it. I was taught that if it doesnt kill you when you eat it, you eat it. just like broccoli. This family was looking after me as a favor, just like in this clip, and i was taught to return their kindness by eating their food. I actually really like ox tail today and think of this friend, and his family, with fondness as a cherished childhood memory.

[@celticmulato2609]

Try Jamaican cooked oxtail, it's the best! I guarantee you. 😊

[@randilevson9547]

People look too hard to find differences in each other. Our similarities are obvious, and much more important. What a wonderful atmosphere this man grew up in.

[@starfighter1043]

It's a political catch. They look hard to find differences to seperate us so they can get the either or to vote for the democrats lol 😂 if black people weren't a victim they'd be conservative 🤷‍♂️✌️

[@ryan160]

yes there were many good people, but the racist history of america shouldnt be forgotten. its not about creating divide between racial groups its about remembering the past and how it still impacts today.

[@starfighter1043]

@@ryan160 sooo what do you think about the slaves in Libya?

[@YG1989Natty]

​@@starfighter1043 Bit of a silly question, is it not?? What is one supposed to make of such abhorrent situation. In Gaddafi very last speech to the UN before he was murdered, he warned - if the US is allowed to meddle and have him ousted, slavery will return. Sure enough, he was right. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@JoshuaLandergren-kr9rz]

​@@ryan160let's not look at the past, it only going to affect us if we look into the past. If you look at us now you'll see that the slaves and slave owners are all dead, and now it's just black people killing black people... Wake up.

[@adi5765]

In the 60s, 70s there were more black kids than white at my bday parties . Never thought of them as nothing but my friends

[@jagbanks6280]

Its still the same often times today. Its changed as things always do with time but its important to remember that we are basically the same as people 100 years ago and 1000 years ago. We simply live in a different time

[@user-dc9oq2pr6v]

Fax. People remain more or less the same