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".
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.