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Proud Public Servant

(2,097 posts) Sun Jul 10, 2016, 09:46 AM Jul 2016

My 83 year old mother

Is a white woman raised in Chicago -- as racist and segregated a city as you're likely to find anywhere, north or south. Like many Chicagoans, she was part of the wave of white flight families in the early sixties, moving out to the lily-white 'burbs where I (and Hillary Rodham) were raised. She's not an educated woman, not a reader, certainly not political (she's a mainstream Democrat who's favorite leader in her lifetime was Hubert Humphrey). She's mostly housebound and watches a fair amount of news, with all its bias and scaremongering.

And yet she gets -- really gets -- Black Lives Matter.

So as far as I'm concerned, no other white person has any excuse.

Mom

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My 83 year old mother (Original Post) Proud Public Servant Jul 2016 OP

Your mom is cool lunatica Jul 2016 #1

You are fortunate to have a mother who is wise and compassionate. japple Jul 2016 #2

Your mother is an exceptional lady and living an hour from Baton Rouge puts the dae Jul 2016 #3

Bless your mother HipChick Jul 2016 #4

Bless her treestar Jul 2016 #5

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lunatica

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1. Your mom is cool

Reply to Proud Public Servant (Original post)

Sun Jul 10, 2016, 11:42 AM

Jul 2016

And proof that not all older Americans are a solid block of Teabaggeratti racists.

My mother died when she was 84. She came from the deep South in Fayetteville, North Carolina from a tobacco farming family and anyone would assume she was racist, but they would be wrong. There are many Southerners who aren't racists but they must live with the fact that everyone believes they are.

My mother was a teacher for many years in predominantly Black Oakland, CA. and the last 10 years of her teaching career she worked in a Native American Child Development Center in Oakland. She spent her life fighting for minorities and actively involved in giving them an education, which she thought was the most important thing in life. She herself got her Bachelor degree from UC Berkeley and her Masters from Duke University.

She was very much an anti racist and taught her children that all people were equal in abilities and all people deserve respect. She was a truly cool person in my opinion.