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From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Interracial Dating
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Date: Tue, 2-Oct-84 23:41:59 EDT
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>> 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.
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