Living in Virginia Remembering Segregation

[@aewoody8204]

i literally am from charlottesville, va born in raised been here for 24 years. i can say i absolutely love it, i wish there was more info about the city!

[@joyceterrell3969]

I'm a Great Niece of Bessie Smith and I integrated Gar-Field High school in Woodbridge, Virginia. I was the first. Treated horrific by those racist demon kids. Emmy Lou Harris was one of the few who treated me kind. This story is in my book entitled A Blues Song 🎵 OF MY OWN. Peace and love ❤

[@deloreswillis9224]

Omg…. GOD BLESS YOU MY SIS🙏🏿

[@latanyamikell5731]

I'm a Young black lady and came here cause I never Saw or knew about these things the world needs to keep more videos like this before it's too late

[@cayennenaturetrails8953]

Yes, Knowledge is Power! :)

[@elisabethdakak878]

If you are interested in knowing the true history of the Blacks, you would have to read about the people who suffered Slavery, Segregation, the Black Codes, the Lynching, the suffrage for men/women, the laws of Jim Crow, the sharecropping, and you will discover the people who fought vehemently for you to have rights D. H. Dilbeck Frederick Douglass America's Prophet

[@Larrywhite00]

Lol, luhsheekwa. Haha no such thing as a lady in your species

[@HHWC100]

I was about 10 years old when they segregated Petersburg High School. I remember the black high schoolers walking in front of my house to go to school. Those were tense times. I didn’t know much about what was happening but I could feel the anxiety in the atmosphere.

[@merchernel123]

Your posts have my on a binge this evening. 🙏🏽

[@theresawoodlake5769]

I love reading about history good and the bad times bad times made you stronger

[@cayennenaturetrails8953]

:) Great information! Thanks for sharing! :)

[@Moonless6491]

The problems these days is the black folks in my city tend to treat us white people as if we are still slave owners. I've experienced reverse racism many times. I'm not the guy who did those horrible things to them, but I feel like I'm still being forced to pay for the mistakes of my ancestors. I feel like we will never be able to move forward. The horrors of the past are constantly brought to the front of the room as if they still hold bearing today, as if they are warning me not to do the same thing to them. I have no desire whatsoever to be racist. I grew up in poverty and was on foodstamps too.

[@johnclark1612]

Kept the murder rate down

[@kathleencalhoun2225]

Yes, there was a lot of injustice. Regarding it, the idea of returning willing blacks to Liberia was not such a bad idea after all because what Jefferson and Lincoln stated in reference to the two races not being able to live together peacefully turned out to be entirely true. No one can deny that. I think that the US government should have been entirely responsible for overseeing that willing blacks receive education and training in assisting them to adjust to life in Liberia and establishing any settlements there and continued to funnel money and whatever assistance they needed. I never thought I would be saying a thing like this, but I think handling things in this manner would have prevented a lot of racial hatred, violence, and unnecessary deaths. Even today, there are still many problems resulting from the two groups not being able to get along and accept each other.

[@yeerrr2726]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Larrywhite00]

It is not too late for liberia to gain a huge population. I'll help buy tickets.

[@josephmyers1147]

And send those that want to go back to Europe where they can have a white government l will help pay for their tickets 🎟

[@williewalker5051]

I beg your pardon. Its the so called whites that have the problem, Not the Black Americans. We're Africans in America. We we're brought here to work for free, and we're not have rights like other Americans. We are the only people who had to prove and fight to be considered Human. We ahead blood just to live in peace. We faught in every war, treated worse then anyone. And yet we are still here

[@Larrywhite00]

@@williewalker5051 America would be far better if we would have never imported Africans.

[@uiu510]

So what! The City of Boston ended segregation in the 1970's.

[@mns8732]

Four comments. Shameful. Shameful.

[@elisabethdakak878]

It is shameful Americans will not improve this country as long as they walk with blinders on. The name if Frederick Douglass should be an inspiration. America's Prophet as described by D.H. Dilbeck Frederick Douglass America's Prophet

[@deloreswillis9224]

Amen lord🙏🏿

[@JordanWilliams-ix2td]

You know white people can't take the truth 😂

[@Larrywhite00]

That must have been a great time to be alive in the usa. We could safely go eat in nice clean restaurants and enjoy our communities and businesses in peace. Everyone knew their place and times were good.

[@Novasterling]

Amen!

[@buckeyewill2166]

Really???? Thank goodness I was born north of the Mason/Dixon Line. The Jim Crow laws made the Pharisees in the Bible look like pikers.

[@teresawicks9859]

LET'S BE TRUTHFUL, AMERICA WAS ONLY GOOD FOR CAUCASIANS😢😞!!