Much like 83 year old Rich, commenting above, on his own, similar, life experiences, I started grade school in Montgomery, Alabama, then went to live in Long Beach, Long Island, before moving to Germany and, then, France (my father was an Air Force pilot), before returning to spend the 4th, 5th, and 6th grades in a totally segregated Albany, Georgia. I learned the "N" word before I could spell, then spent the next three years in a totally integrated elementary school, in post-war Europe, only to return to Jim Crow land, where I also learned that I was part of the problem, as a "Yankee," and a Catholic (my father was one...marking me as one), and I came to know that I wasn't all that welcome there, either.
Though I'm nowhere near as old as Rich (I'm only 75), we've seen this all before...and all those issues were resolved, after years of public protest, by legislation, during LBJ's years, and litigation, during the days of the Warren Court. And now we "old farts" see it all unraveling, as the progressive domestic achievements of Johnson are reversed by the Corporate Congress, approved by a Neo-liberal Democrat party, and sanctioned by a reactionary Supreme Court (Thurgood Marshall hasn't stopped turning over, since Clarence Thomas first appeared).
Still shooting around in a Big Ten town 48 years later. https://www.facebook.com/paul.street.56/videos/604715858406868
The Halberstam book https://www.amazon.com/October-1964-David-Halberstam/dp/0449983676
Much like 83 year old Rich, commenting above, on his own, similar, life experiences, I started grade school in Montgomery, Alabama, then went to live in Long Beach, Long Island, before moving to Germany and, then, France (my father was an Air Force pilot), before returning to spend the 4th, 5th, and 6th grades in a totally segregated Albany, Georgia. I learned the "N" word before I could spell, then spent the next three years in a totally integrated elementary school, in post-war Europe, only to return to Jim Crow land, where I also learned that I was part of the problem, as a "Yankee," and a Catholic (my father was one...marking me as one), and I came to know that I wasn't all that welcome there, either.
Though I'm nowhere near as old as Rich (I'm only 75), we've seen this all before...and all those issues were resolved, after years of public protest, by legislation, during LBJ's years, and litigation, during the days of the Warren Court. And now we "old farts" see it all unraveling, as the progressive domestic achievements of Johnson are reversed by the Corporate Congress, approved by a Neo-liberal Democrat party, and sanctioned by a reactionary Supreme Court (Thurgood Marshall hasn't stopped turning over, since Clarence Thomas first appeared).
So much has happened, so few remember. (Repeat)
Oh indeed the Republi-fascists are moving hard to roll back the clock. They'd bring back chattel slavery if they could. And thee Democrats are useless
Hi Paul_
You share your politics and now you bio. Keep it coming. I can handle it.
Some of it - the bio that is.
For sure...can't see you ever holding back on your political views.
Ricjh: I should have invited you to speak to my class back when I taught The History of Chicago at DePaul!