That depends on who you were. I grew up during Jim Crow in Columbia MO, a college town. My parents owned a clothing store downtown. My caretaker was a black women who I adored. We did everything together and I saw Jim Crow through her eyes. When we went to the movies we had to sit in the balcony after standing in the "colored line". When we traveled we had to take her food out to the car because she was not allowed inside a resturant. I could go on and on.I was just a kid and I saw how wrong it was, it formed my politics at age 5. Thankfully, my family did not pass bigotry along to me. My parents and my grandmother paid into social security for their black employees. When she passed away we learned that my grandmother had been supporting a black daycare center for years. I have always been so thankful that they did not give me something to overcome.
So, we had more democracy under Jim Crow
That depends on who you were. I grew up during Jim Crow in Columbia MO, a college town. My parents owned a clothing store downtown. My caretaker was a black women who I adored. We did everything together and I saw Jim Crow through her eyes. When we went to the movies we had to sit in the balcony after standing in the "colored line". When we traveled we had to take her food out to the car because she was not allowed inside a resturant. I could go on and on.I was just a kid and I saw how wrong it was, it formed my politics at age 5. Thankfully, my family did not pass bigotry along to me. My parents and my grandmother paid into social security for their black employees. When she passed away we learned that my grandmother had been supporting a black daycare center for years. I have always been so thankful that they did not give me something to overcome.
Not the Black folk.
Who is "we?"