Reply #46: Growing up while Truman was President,

[Clete]

his sentiments are not surprising. White people were blatantly and openly racist, anti-semite, anti-catholic, and you name it back then. In my fifth grade, there was one Jewish child and one Catholic child, me. We were always left out of play during recess, not invited to birthday parties and generally shunned because of our religions. My mother, who was Chilean, deceptively tried to pass herself off as eastern European and forced me to go along with her lies, rather than admit she was a Latina.

Years later, when I was in college, one of my friends, an ethnic Chinese American from northern California, said she went through pretty much the same thing because she was the only Asian in her school that was in a predominantly WASP area.

What is important is that Truman did not act on his feelings and this is to his credit.