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ophelia Feb 11, 2004

(haha, nobody's gonna read this whole thing)..What i'm about to say shouldn't really have any connection to the fact that i'm black, fact is fact..but...w/each generation, racism in america, as a w...

ekulu Feb 11, 2004

yea. theres still even brothers who havea hard time removing prejudices that they once had. One brotehr started to cry while he was giving a talk becuz he said it wa so hard for him. But yea, al th...

tinser tinserOG 2002

i even heard that there used to be segregated congregations in florida not all that long ago

ilikebirds ilikebirdsOG 2002

yea we have segregated bathrooms in my house.

ophelia opheliaOG 2003

what?..i didn't know that...it's funny, back in the day, when everything was segregated, the govt's explaination for it was that, the racial tension was too high to mix races, and that if that WAS done, it'd result in too much conflict - which is the exact opposite of the truth, because seperating any two groups of people only fuels erroneous thoughts and feelings for those who they're seperated from, which just goes to create even more tension...once people are exposed to what they fear, and realize there's nothing to fear to begin with, things usually change....

tinser tinserOG 2002

yeah, i know a couple from florida, and they said their congregation used to be segregated...crazyness

socalgal socalgalOG 2003

i heard theres still some in tennessee....that weirds me out!

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