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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 603141" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>About it, Kathy. Women didn't usually work or have much power. The man handled the money. The man was catered to by wife and kids and if he didn't like what the wife or kids said or did he could clobber either or all of them without repercussions because who would know? Women were not supposed to do anything except be mothers and wives. These were WHITE women. Can only imagine what it was like for minority women. Probably much the same, only the men were demeaned by white men so they knew how it felt, but often still treated the wife and kids like they owed him a living. </p><p></p><p>As the mom of a multi-racial brood...Asian and bi-racial and black...I don't think we would have even been allowed to have been a family in those days. Does anyone think bi-racial Jumper would have had the chance to shine and be Prom Queen at a mostly white school back then? Or even have white boys as boyfriends? Absolutely not. It was forbidden to date interracial in many places.</p><p></p><p>Memories are like snapshots in a family album. In the pictures, everyone is smiling and hugging and the sadness is hidden. I sure am glad I wasn't born back then. I would never have had the chance to raise my wonderful kiddos because interracial adoption was forbidden too. I also don't miss never having met a Klansman in my life. I</p><p></p><p>Things are still racially tense, but we have an option of not joining the people who are white and feel discriminated against, something I feel is absurd, but it exists. Still, I don't have to join that mindset and I can marry anyone I like, have kids of all races, and swim in the same pool as my kids. And now gays are finally getting the right to marry and in my opinion that is a good thing too. I don't want to go back to the 1950's. I have to lol at all the white men on talk radio who are very angry now BECAUSE they are no longer in total charge. But it is also their decision to be angry and wish for the 1950's (shrug).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 603141, member: 1550"] About it, Kathy. Women didn't usually work or have much power. The man handled the money. The man was catered to by wife and kids and if he didn't like what the wife or kids said or did he could clobber either or all of them without repercussions because who would know? Women were not supposed to do anything except be mothers and wives. These were WHITE women. Can only imagine what it was like for minority women. Probably much the same, only the men were demeaned by white men so they knew how it felt, but often still treated the wife and kids like they owed him a living. As the mom of a multi-racial brood...Asian and bi-racial and black...I don't think we would have even been allowed to have been a family in those days. Does anyone think bi-racial Jumper would have had the chance to shine and be Prom Queen at a mostly white school back then? Or even have white boys as boyfriends? Absolutely not. It was forbidden to date interracial in many places. Memories are like snapshots in a family album. In the pictures, everyone is smiling and hugging and the sadness is hidden. I sure am glad I wasn't born back then. I would never have had the chance to raise my wonderful kiddos because interracial adoption was forbidden too. I also don't miss never having met a Klansman in my life. I Things are still racially tense, but we have an option of not joining the people who are white and feel discriminated against, something I feel is absurd, but it exists. Still, I don't have to join that mindset and I can marry anyone I like, have kids of all races, and swim in the same pool as my kids. And now gays are finally getting the right to marry and in my opinion that is a good thing too. I don't want to go back to the 1950's. I have to lol at all the white men on talk radio who are very angry now BECAUSE they are no longer in total charge. But it is also their decision to be angry and wish for the 1950's (shrug). [/QUOTE]
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