TPPM Watts: (28) Siege of persuasion

[pynchonoid]

--- Paul Nightingale <isread at btopenworld.com> wrote:
> Well, "white values are [also] displayed without
> let-up on [white]
> people's TV screens": is this why so many drive
> Mustangs?


Lafayette, Louisiana was a racially segregated city
when I spent most of my grammar school years there in
the late 1950s and early '60s.  An oil bidness friend
of my father's bought his wife a Mustang when they
first came on the market - first on their block - and
the wife made him trade it in when their black maid
appeared at work the following driving a brand new
Mustang, too. . Around this time,  it looked as if
they were going to be forced to integrate the schools.
We came to school one morning and the administration
had divided the playground in half with a chalk line -
boys on one side, girls on the other.  If push came to
shove, the good white folk of Lafayette were going to
protect their young girls from contact with the black
boys.  The playground division lasted a few weeks,
until the integration scare passed. Not too long after
that our family moved out west. Not quite 20 years
later I wound up in an inter-racial marriage that
continues to this day. 


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