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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 35589" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Nancy, I agree with everything you have said. </p><p></p><p>Those of us old enough to remember the civil rights struggles in the 60's are maybe even more outraged and appalled by the current "culture" than some of the younger ones. </p><p></p><p>A few years ago the domestic violence group I was a part of attended a convention in Birmingham, Alabama and while we were there we toured the Civil Rights Museum, a real eye-opening experience for anyone. One member of our group was a black lady about my same age who had grown up in Memphis in the very middle of the Civil Rights movement. And as we walked through the museum taking in the displays, she began to tell us what it was like for her growing up at that time and in that place. She was in high school at the time and she talked about how the Civil Rights workers came to the high schools and colleges to recruit students to participate in demonstrations and sit-ins, how they were organized and trained. She was THERE and she told us exactly how it feels to have fire hoses turned on you and police dogs set on you, and how they were all arrested many, many times for standing up for what they believed in! </p><p></p><p>They went through this for the <em>opportunity</em> to have equal access to jobs, education and housing. They went through all this, not just to get the legal rights and opportunities that all Americans should be entitled to, but to be treated with <em>dignity</em> and <em>respect</em>, as human beings should be! And I can't help thinking what people like my friend must be thinking when they see some of the current music videos and to see how the current "culture" portrays blacks in general and women in particular! I'm sure she and every one who went through similar experiences in their youth are even more appalled than I am! It's like we've come full circle and have undone many of the steps forward they struggled so hard to make in the 60's. I'm old enough to remember!</p><p></p><p>OK, I'm officially off my soapbox now!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 35589, member: 1883"] Nancy, I agree with everything you have said. Those of us old enough to remember the civil rights struggles in the 60's are maybe even more outraged and appalled by the current "culture" than some of the younger ones. A few years ago the domestic violence group I was a part of attended a convention in Birmingham, Alabama and while we were there we toured the Civil Rights Museum, a real eye-opening experience for anyone. One member of our group was a black lady about my same age who had grown up in Memphis in the very middle of the Civil Rights movement. And as we walked through the museum taking in the displays, she began to tell us what it was like for her growing up at that time and in that place. She was in high school at the time and she talked about how the Civil Rights workers came to the high schools and colleges to recruit students to participate in demonstrations and sit-ins, how they were organized and trained. She was THERE and she told us exactly how it feels to have fire hoses turned on you and police dogs set on you, and how they were all arrested many, many times for standing up for what they believed in! They went through this for the [i]opportunity[/i] to have equal access to jobs, education and housing. They went through all this, not just to get the legal rights and opportunities that all Americans should be entitled to, but to be treated with [i]dignity[/i] and [i]respect[/i], as human beings should be! And I can't help thinking what people like my friend must be thinking when they see some of the current music videos and to see how the current "culture" portrays blacks in general and women in particular! I'm sure she and every one who went through similar experiences in their youth are even more appalled than I am! It's like we've come full circle and have undone many of the steps forward they struggled so hard to make in the 60's. I'm old enough to remember! OK, I'm officially off my soapbox now! [/QUOTE]
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