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RE: I Have A Dream! - 9/1/2011 5:35:30 AM

Fightdirecto

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ORIGINAL: Edwynn
...they never had those signs because there were never any black people to make an issue to begin with...

My father was born in 1920 and grew up on a ranch in northwestern Colorado. According to him, he never saw a black person until he was 12 years old (on a trip to Denver with his father and brothers, they attended a baseball game played by two all-black professional baseball teams).

Yet they still had "whites only" resturants, public restrooms and water fountains in his area of northwestern Colorado - however there "whites only" meant no Hispanics could use them.

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RE: I Have A Dream! - 9/1/2011 6:03:14 AM

Edwynn

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ORIGINAL: Fightdirecto

quote:

ORIGINAL: Edwynn
...they never had those signs because there were never any black people to make an issue to begin with...

My father was born in 1920 and grew up on a ranch in northwestern Colorado. According to him, he never saw a black person until he was 12 years old (on a trip to Denver with his father and brothers, they attended a baseball game played by two all-black professional baseball teams).

Yet they still had "whites only" resturants, public restrooms and water fountains in his area of northwestern Colorado - however there "whites only" meant no Hispanics could use them.

I am not trying to deny any of what happened, FD, and thank you for that information.

I hope that this is in the spirit of "filling in the blanks" here, which you just did.

I hope that I am doing the same for you and others.

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