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Aug 27, 2020, 7:02 PM [ in reply to there is a show on Bounce ]

that was the most polite way to address blacks during and before the mid 1960.

Negro was also used by blacks during that time too. Some even used the 'N,' word as I recall from one early fall morning. My grandmother lived on the midline of the whites and blacks neighborhoods and ran a general type neighborhood store there.

The closest distance to school from her house was down a side street on which my black friends lived the across a creek which had a wooden walking bridge. I often walked to school with them after local black leaders and residents lost the legal battle deciding that their children would attend school with whites and shut down Campbell High.

That morning, Doug Sanders caught my attention as I passed 'Holeup.' I waited for him at his cousin's mailbox, he's spent the night there, and we walked together. A couple more friends came out and met us joining in the insult slinging at one another as boys that age will do.

Lawrence Hanks yelled out his window. 'Y'all wait up.' Doug, I believe, said 'You betta hurry at blackasz up, 'N!' Lawrence screamed, 'You betta put 'row,' on the end of it, boy,' to which Doug said 'I put row on the end of it.'

Some old lady stepped to the front of her porch and said, 'He ain't put no row on the end of it, I hearded it!' ...and people on both sides of the street came onto their porches to see about the stirring. There I stood, one of the group who would come close to passing for a white boy as the entire street got involved in a racial insult ruckus.

I's like, '###,' but all I said over and over was, 'It wadn't me'...cause, ###.

I think that might have been 1965-6 but the date wasn't my most prominent memory of that day.

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Maybe I was token back then. All I know is that the white boys hated me especially the football players. Something about girls, I reckon.

One morning we stepped through the lower hall exterior door on the way to home room and a group of players were waiting on me there. I was accused of walking Sharon, GF of linemen Greg Thompson and they all looked mad as hail.

Usually, my fright didn't show. I could BS my way through some conflicts and handle myself if there had to be a fight. However, only a few of the 'boys,' were close enough to me to know what was happening. After chitting my pants I heard Daniel Jordan's booming voice in the doorway behind me. 'Wtph is goin on here now?'

Daniel was one of my black friend's big brother, and I stress big, especially for a highschool kid. At about 6'4 or so and 260 lbs he was as big as any two linemen on the team and generally as gentile as a lamb except that time came to the sockhop and found me dancing with his baby sister, Mary Jane.

Daniel said, "Y'all all can whup #####'s asz but it's gonna be one at a time. Dat what you boys want?" Seems that wasn't what they wanted so they mossied away and I walked Sharon home again that afternoon while Greg was sweating his asz off on the football field.

I spent several summers at Fannie Mama's house and played with that crew growing up. I ate supper with the Jordans and the Sanders cause Doug Sanders' little sister didn't stay little long and was a dead ringer for Diana Ross. Pookie, their big brother ended my dreams with a look one day.

I got brave with Daniel watching my back and talked a lot of chit then.

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Contrary to what today's youth believe...

Sounds a lot like my interracial crew back in 1984

Oh chit.

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I just saw this yesterday because I never use

Either you watch all those movies or you're a racist...

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I'ma put em on using the PS and shut off the TV and...

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