has anyone here experienced racial segregation before?

Question

i'm writing a poem about segregation for Black History month, and i'd like some information about it, and all that.... thanks alot.

Answer 1

I haven't, however, my parents who were born in the 1950's attended segregated schools. They said there were so few books that each student was allowed to take one home once a week. Not only that but the books were often outdated and falling apart. There were not enough chairs or desk and forget about supplies for art and music. My mother thought her experience was worst because she lived in a small town and had been inside of the white school so she knew how much better they had it. When she was pregnant with my oldest brother she needed to go to the bathroom but there were none for black people in the area. She held it as long as she could (you know a pregnant women's bladder is not the best) she ended up with a can behind a store. My father was involved in some protests during the civil rights movement. However, he believes separate but equal was unequal but not necessarily wrong. If things were equal he would prefer segregation. Not every African American was against segregation but they were against the inequality within the system.

**Hope this helps. I have a lot of examples they've given me but they are not really my experiences.

Answer 2

I was only 6 yo in 1954, but our high school was not integrated until 1966. I did not go to school with any blacks until college. I was too small to understand what was happening when I was growing up. I think that attitudes change with education and with the dying out of those oldest generations and letting the newer generations and their new attitudes take over. We will never know what the blacks went through; we will never know what it is to be black and vice versa. We can stop all this hatred before it starts by education and being open to differing points of views than our own. Remember, at one time or another, every race on earth has been enslaved by someone. No one is completely innocent or completely guilty in this matter. We have to deal with our problems we have in the here and now, not what did or did not happen in the first centuries after Columbus discovered the Americas.

As a small white child, I went to a washerteria and saw a sign, "Whites Only" and could not make the racial connection. All I knew is that it didn't make sense to have a place to wash white clothes only! See, racism and prejudice has to be taught. You are not born with it.

Answer 3

Yeah every February! I still wonder why there is only a Black History month and not a Latino history month or a Native American History month or Asian history month. Those ethnicity's have significances in this country as well. Giving one ethnicity its own month is segregation in itself

Answer 4

You should ask in the Society and Culture - Cultures and Groups section.
Currently in USA, most segregation is voluntary.
Learning to speak English is not always required.
People like to live with people who speak the same language as them and who have similar cultural values.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Yes, I (a Swedish-Lutheran) attended public grammar school with almost all Jewish classmates and teachers.

During the same years, I lived in an almost all Irish-Catholic apartment building.

Also, at the same time, I attended church with almost all German-Lutherans.

I really didn't feel I fit in anywhere--so don't say I don't know how being a "minority" feels.

Answer 7

Ahhhh the good old days. Back then you didn't have to lock your doors at night, no one had heard of crack and everyone had their own water fountain. Life was good.

Answer 8

maybe.....