Klarinet Archive - Posting 000306.txt from 1999/02

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Women and orchestras
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 00:20:36 -0500

On Sun, 7 Feb 1999 DHmorgan@-----.com wrote:

> Discrimination, against blacks for instance, has been incredibly
> brutal. White people have a rather infamous history in this country of
> trying to hold on to their priviledges--slavery gave way to share
> cropping, Jim Crow--

Hey, wait a minute - my grandfather was a sharecropper, as were his father
and grandfather. And, on a complexion of 1 - 100, with 100 being the
darkest, I think I would rank at about 3! (I know what you are saying
about the way the ex-slaves were treated in many places. They were in
some cases even in worse conditions than they had been previously.)
Maybe the main difference between those poor unfortunates and my ancestors
is that no one was likely to try to sell my grandfather's wife and
children down the river - and that was no small blessing.

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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