leomoon
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Opal:
Quite a contrast from my family. Dad was racist moreso then mom. Grandmother from Quebec and her family very much so. Grandfather (American Indian, less so)
I chalk it up to different times, different cultures, etc.
Neither my sister nor I adopted their positions. To our benefit I might add. My younger sister (by 3 years), grew up when the society was radically changing and never returned home except for money now and then and perhaps an occasional visit. She became a bona-fide Hippie living off the land, with what I'd say were cults. First in Oregon which was riddled with hippies in the forests? Then in California, and we lived in the East, the other side of the country.
One visit home, she bought a black hippie to my grandmother's house, and I can still see grandma sitting there on her rocking chair, with her mouth firmly glued into a half smile. It was quite rude of my sister knowing how my grandma felt. We don't have to agree with people, but we shouldn't be rude either when their minds are firmly made up (due to times and places and culture, such as she had being born in 1900 October (Scorpio Sun- Libra Moon)
Did she think she was accomplishing something that day or just wanted to put something in my grandmother's face to say to her visually, "Look at me, I'm better then you?" I have no clue, and never asked her that I recall now.
This was probably around 1966
Just one episode I recall vividly. It was "tense" but halfway cordial too.
My Mother was quite sensitive to racial issues. She did not allow certain words to be spoken.
The rhyme, that is how we learned it. Weird, that when I learned it, I had never met one, nor did I know what the word actually meant.
Quite a contrast from my family. Dad was racist moreso then mom. Grandmother from Quebec and her family very much so. Grandfather (American Indian, less so)
I chalk it up to different times, different cultures, etc.
Neither my sister nor I adopted their positions. To our benefit I might add. My younger sister (by 3 years), grew up when the society was radically changing and never returned home except for money now and then and perhaps an occasional visit. She became a bona-fide Hippie living off the land, with what I'd say were cults. First in Oregon which was riddled with hippies in the forests? Then in California, and we lived in the East, the other side of the country.
One visit home, she bought a black hippie to my grandmother's house, and I can still see grandma sitting there on her rocking chair, with her mouth firmly glued into a half smile. It was quite rude of my sister knowing how my grandma felt. We don't have to agree with people, but we shouldn't be rude either when their minds are firmly made up (due to times and places and culture, such as she had being born in 1900 October (Scorpio Sun- Libra Moon)
Did she think she was accomplishing something that day or just wanted to put something in my grandmother's face to say to her visually, "Look at me, I'm better then you?" I have no clue, and never asked her that I recall now.
This was probably around 1966
Just one episode I recall vividly. It was "tense" but halfway cordial too.
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