Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxq.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!ihuxq!ken From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Interracial Dating Message-ID: <1256@ihuxq.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Oct-84 23:41:59 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxq.1256 Posted: Tue Oct 2 23:41:59 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Oct-84 00:39:51 EDT References: <865@abnjh.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 26 -- >> Maybe I am wrong, but the world seems only marginally more >> agreeable to IRD than it was when I was first starting to date >> as a teenager in the turbulent late 60's (in "liberal" New >> York State). >> Jim Collymore Maybe it was just the difference of a few years, but I grew up in a run-down shopping-center area of Long Island, mostly Black, in the late 50's and early 60's. The grade schools were pretty segregated, but Hempstead High was totally integrated. The NAACP was a popular organization irrespective of race around '64 and '65. My girlfriend was Black (well, "Negro" back then), and we used to speak of IRD as "going zebra". There was institutionalized racism, in that most all of us whites got the benefit of any doubt when it came to college-track courses, but the kids got along OK. I've often looked back at those years: the academic education I got was marginal, but the social education can never be matched. -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 02 Oct 84 [11 Vendemiaire An CXCIII] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7188 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!ihuxq!ken *** ***