1964. That is the same year the Civil Rights Act passed. Before that the fiction of "Separate but equal" still prevailed in the American South-East. Blacks had to use separate drinking fountains and swimming pools and go to different schools than white children. Can you even begin to imagine what it was like for a Caucasian woman raising a mixed-race son alone in America then...in any state? Can you imagine what it was like to grow up in that world as a mixed race child?
I grew up in those years and I was proud of the progress my country made until all of you racist peckerwoods came along with your thinly disguised longing for "them knowing their place" dressed up as a bullshit demand to see another copy of the birth certificate of the President of your country.
Now at long last, will you shut the fuck up?
While he is a far cry from the President I hoped for, you make me ashamed to be an American.
Be seeing you.
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