SKA letter written by my dad in the Chicago Daily News, May 1968. It could have been written in the 2020s.
He campaigned to overturn a local ordinance in our suburb barring Black people from buying/renting homes. We moved there from the city in '64 even though (I read 50 years later) >15% of home listings at that time also barred Jews "by printed instructions of local real estate board".
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@sk76 Oh that’s completely messed up
Caterine Vauban@sk76 Wow; my jaw just dropped! 😮 Can you imagine the ripple effects? I've read that fear of difference had an advantage in our evolutionary #psychology, but we really are a stupid bunch when it comes to insisting on #prejudice that's clearly going to fracture what in reality is our #community irrespective of our narrow views.
@caterinevauban even with the Civil Rights act and repeal of these local laws, my area was still overwhelmingly white as long as I lived there. There were only a handful of PoC students in my very large school. I was lucky to have a Black advisor (aka "homeroom teacher") for my four years of high school.
@sk76 The tension was surely palpable. Nobody should live with that kind of chronic #stress. Instinct is powerful but so many of us let it rule us while we claim to be intelligent and rational. I'm #Australian, and this whole place is #racist to the core with spectacular denial at every turn.
okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin@sk76
Deerfield was the same. Didn't drop those laws until losing a lawsuit .
Deerfield was the same. Didn't drop those laws until losing a lawsuit .
rag. Gustavino BevilacquaWow, thanks for sharing!
motionsuggests@sk76 Your dad is awesome!
JerseyBlue@sk76 Perfection.
Mayor of Nerdocrumbesia 🏡You'd think a lack of something that provides protection from solar rays would be seen as a defect.
Kenneth@sk76 We, the Melanin-Impaired...
JohnnieMac@sk76 over 50 years ago… sad how we have not moved ahead.
Your dad is a real role model, demonstrated real values, and wrote a sublime rebuttal to despicable behaviour then (and now).
Thank you for sharing
Your dad is a real role model, demonstrated real values, and wrote a sublime rebuttal to despicable behaviour then (and now).
Thank you for sharing
MR.Cleymoxx@sk76 George Clinton AIN'T WHITE - and that man is a prime IDOL of mine! He's got so much FUNK, yet he's not white - the color of the skin has nothing to do with how FUNKY a man can be...hell, Sun Ra was also black...
@Twisted666 who said he was?
@sk76 No one said Clinton was white - BUT your dad's letter imply how some people think whit skin may be thought of as SUPERIOR to some fools - but it ain't because just look at how some great, artists and free thinkers are black...like Clinton..
@Twisted666 i think my dad agrees with you 100%
@sk76 Your dad was a great individual - my dad was also very much leaning towards a free mind..
PeteI love how this is expressed, your father's turns of phrase are wonderful...
"a dismal coincidence"
"a pathetic expression of your spiritual poverty"
"all the more pitiable"
"you presume affiliation with me"
"the very nadir of arrogance"
There is so much anger and distain, but also righteousness and purpose.
Thanks for sharing!
Steven Heywood@Stevenheywood @pete he's a writer and eventually turned to poetry late in life.
Quirky George 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇬🇧🇪🇺@sk76 what an awesome father.
John A. Wojtowicz@sk76
Thank you for your post.
The letter does sound like it was written for t today's world. Your father sounds like someone I would like to have known.
Peace
David Scott Moyer