> Off Topic Discussions

When I was a kid:

<< < (2/7) > >>

Rene:
When I was a kid:

Schools were still segregated in the southern part of the US. :P

Movie theaters were segregated too. :o

René

Gina:

--- Quote from: Rene on March 29, 2012, 08:52:17 AM ---When I was a kid:

Schools were still segregated in the southern part of the US. :P

Movie theaters were segregated too. :o

René

--- End quote ---
Hi, Rene,

I remember the schools being segregated, too. 

 I was not prepared for the hate and the anger on both sides that ensued after the schools became desegregated.  But I do remember all my black girlfriends in the second grade used to love to take out their big pick combs and comb my hair, haha!  They loved my hair. :)   Those were confusing times because I didn't understand why everybody hated everybody so much -- I was seven. 

My brothers and sisters and I were pretty much raised by a black woman who came into our home to take care of us while our parents worked, and she loved us so much.

Later in life, I looked back on how Priscilla (the woman who raised us) treated everyone and how everyone loved her -- everyone and when I would be mistreated or used or abused or left out I just reminded myself that that never stopped her, it never got her down and she never retaliated.  She never once mentioned or complained to us how she was so mistreated during the times of segregation.  She was a very strong woman.  I learned a lot from her.  More from her than from my own parents.

indianabob:
Hi Rene,
Segregated:
Separate but equal right? Not necessarily!!

I was fortunate to have grown up in Oxford, Pa where we had integrated schools in 1942-48 and I learned a little about how to appreciate playmates that were different from me.
We lived on the same block as the school and my playtime friend, Joe Louis Brown lived across the street. The town had a small business district and four policemen one of which was Mr. Viscount Nelson, a black officer that everyone loved as far as I knew. He guided us with tender authority, the active word being authority. No one spoke back to him where he could hear it.
Of course it helped tremendously that my parents insisted that I show respect to all adults no matter their last name being funny or their appearance being different from ours. I have to think that God was watching over and preparing me even then.
The "colored" kids lived in older, somewhat run down homes and wore hand-me-down clothes to school, but so did I.
World war two was a leveling situation what with food rationing and no new cars or tires for five or six years, we all learned to appreciate the smaller things and one another.

I think that it is absolutely amazing how God guides our path in life according to His will for us and teaches us to forgive offenses against us. I still cannot imagine how the uncalled folks can think that God cannot forgive offenses much more easily than He expects from us.

Kindly offered, indianabob

Revilonivek:
The old days for me..as a deaf person-

No closed captioning, no phones, no internet, no emails. as a historical fact, people thought deafness meant you were "mentally retarded or demon possessed." It was only discovered recently that deaf people are not mentally retarded. They use to place deaf people in mental hospitals for decades. They still do that in South America to this day.

Now we have  videophones, cc, internet and email and a better understanding of what deafness is. 

Many thanks to God who allows technology to prevail... :)

 I just wish it occurred sooner than later for deaf people born for ages before me :)  I can't imagine how deaf people throughout history in the past felt. I am sure people thought the deaf were demon possessed or mental retarded at the time. as a consequence,they were either sterilized,  killed, fed to animals or abandoned. Why does God let people perceive deaf people like that? It's just wrong.

Denise

indianabob:
Hi Gracious and Denise,

God made mankind with choices for which they are accountable.
God allows men and women to marry anyone they choose and suffer the consequences.
God gives children to couples and then expects them to baby-sit carefully.
If they let their little children play in the street or next to a high cliff or in the tops of trees, there is always a possibility that injury or death will result.

What if God didn't allow us to make stupid mistakes? What would the world be like?
Would we appreciate God for interfering in our everyday decisions?
For example, you take a third helping of potatoes on your plate and God intervenes by making them just disappear from the plate. You didn't need them. They will make you fat. And you'll have bad dreams all night from over eating. Would you appreciate that or not?
OR you are late for work and speeding down the road and God slows the car back down to the safe, legal speed limit. Would you thank God or curse at Him?

I have often wondered why we get sick. Since God made Adam and Eve perfectly healthy and they passed on a perfectly good, functioning immune system to their kids, why does it not work as well as it should? Could it be the result of sin?

No, our parents made the world the way it is and God allowed it to happen. God is responsible for allowing it, but we and our fellow humans are to blame.

Just my not too humble opinion, indianabob

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page