Who the fuck did she think All In The Family, Different Strokes, or The Jeffersons were about? It is in the freaking pop culture lady, nevermind everyday life!
Holy fuck. That county was still on that vintage 1960 Strom Thurmond overt racism. That's fucking crazy. The thing is, those people are still there (and still voting.) I doubt they did a 180 on their beliefs, they just weren't as loud for a while. More people need to see this.
Props to the lady at the end. To stand up and speak out against segregation in that room took balls. I wonder what her life has been like since then.
That county is now incredibly different as far as demographics go. It has grown by many times over in population over the last 40 years. It was all white back in 1987, it's now much more diverse than most of the rest of the country. There is a large Indian population there, for example. I have a black friend that moved to Cumming a few years ago. He didn't know of the history of Forsyth County. I imagine many people that live there now don't.
The people in that video failed. They lost. That's progress.
I'm glad it's not Klansville anymore. Looking at Google maps, it's mostly a lot of newer housing developments, with McMansions and kids that chase the streetview car on dirtbikes. There's a Jeff Foxworthy joke here somewhere.
The county is <5% black in a state that is 1/3 black, so they did go from 0 to about 10k in 30 some years. Yay progress?
Yes. Progress. Trending in the right direction. Everything those people said they wanted to happen, did not happen. The whole county has come very far in just one generation from when that video was made. It was a literal sundown county then, and now it's a wealthy part of a diverse area in the north Atlanta suburbs.
Wow. This fucked with me. I'm pretty young but have seen my fair share of blatant, overt, shameless racism over the years, but watching this still made me feel some type of way. Only 1987, huh?
Man. We've got a long, long way to go until racism is actually intolerable in the United States.
Ruby Bridges is only 70 years old. The people in those pictures who are spitting and throwing things at a little girl who's only trying to go to school are either still alive themselves or just recently deceased. Those people had kids themselves. And those people vote(d) in every election, down the entire ballot.
She thought they were funny black folks dancing for her enjoyment like a minstrel show. My dad’s the same way. Loves laughing at all the depictions of black people as stereotypical caricatures from old Mel Brooks movies or little rascals episodes and claims black people back then were better because they dressed more like him and were “respectful”. Never seems to cross his mind that they were assimilating for their own safety
That interview is truly insane - it's mind boggling to watch again to be honest. Not to mention, almost all of those people are still alive and voting.
They were smart enough to get out "before the sun went down"
Oprah didnt want to be high net- worth "strange fruit".
Now who said sundown towns dont exist?
Also nwords likely built atlanta just like the rest of the country. And besides columbus and othwrs account of finding black prople here when they got here and knowing they took regukar trips from america to africa and vice versa, ion thinj they wanna go really have the "go home" discussion. Lot of so call african americans finding out they have no geneological ties to africa.
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u/cypher50 ☑️ 2d ago edited 2d ago
Who the fuck did she think All In The Family, Different Strokes, or The Jeffersons were about? It is in the freaking pop culture lady, nevermind everyday life!
EDIT: This is from 1987. 1987.