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Old 11-17-2013, 03:11 PM
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A bit of my history

I graduated East Mecklenburg High School in 1968.

http://www.charlottemagazine.com/Cha...The-Past-1968/
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Old 11-17-2013, 03:32 PM
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Sheeit! You're too damn close to Medicare and Social Security, John.
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Old 11-17-2013, 04:21 PM
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Sheeit! You're too damn close to Medicare and Social Security, John.

I worked for North Carolina National Bank then.(Now Bank of America). I remember walking to the parking lot from the computer room at the end of second shift, seeing officers on the building tops with scoped rifles and police cars patrolling, asking everybody on the street after curfew what they were doing and where they were going.

Weird times.
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Old 11-17-2013, 05:51 PM
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Cool.

I remember the first time I met black kids face to face. I'm thinking it was 1st or 2nd grade, so, 1971-'72. Busing had come to Newton Falls. I remember the so-called "adults" having a fit. But after all the fuss, it turned out to be no big deal. No fights, no rioting.....nothing. But, then there was only like three of them in a school of more than 500. They were more of a curiosity than anything else.

I'm thinking folks were frightened because we had all seen the ugly mess of riots and crime they had going on in big cities like Atlanta, Birmingham, Chicago, Detroit and LA.

I still talk to one of the black kids that was three years behind me, Roz. She, her brother Russell and one in my class, ('82) Leroy Wilson were the only non-whites attending Newton Falls High when I graduated.

The '60s/'70s were a strange period, a sort of transitional phase America was going through.

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Old 11-18-2013, 10:54 AM
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Excellent, thanks.

There were few black folks in my hometown school but when I stayed near east St Louis I was the only white kid in my first class and one of few systemwide.

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Old 11-18-2013, 11:12 AM
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Excellent, thanks.

There were few black folks in my hometown school but when I stayed near east St Louis I was the only white kid in my first class and one of few systemwide.

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Pretty much would still be the case today. East St Louis, IL is a rough place.
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Old 11-18-2013, 11:26 AM
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I was nearby in Venice. Did have some runins with 'gangs' from Lovejoy but it was usually o.k.

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