Comments on: How do we end Racism? http://www.samuraimarineblog.com/2009/10/11/how-do-we-end-racism/ The Home of The SamuraiMarine on the Net Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:45:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: SamuraiMarine http://www.samuraimarineblog.com/2009/10/11/how-do-we-end-racism/#comment-382 SamuraiMarine Sun, 12 Dec 2010 09:06:01 +0000 http://www.samuraimarineblog.com/?p=710#comment-382 Val... I would be interested in knowing more about where you lived and who you are. More than likely, and especially if you were going to college there in the 70s, you may have known my family. It was not a large community back then. If you feel up to it, use the Contact screen to the right and email me. Truly is a small world. Val… I would be interested in knowing more about where you lived and who you are. More than likely, and especially if you were going to college there in the 70s, you may have known my family. It was not a large community back then. If you feel up to it, use the Contact screen to the right and email me.

Truly is a small world.

]]> By: Val http://www.samuraimarineblog.com/2009/10/11/how-do-we-end-racism/#comment-381 Val Sun, 12 Dec 2010 02:01:14 +0000 http://www.samuraimarineblog.com/?p=710#comment-381 I too lived inTaft in the early 1970's. I was a kid, with Jewish roots, fresh off the plane from New York. I was picked on all the time but I guess I should have been grateful my skin is white because I cannot imagine how much worse it could have been. By the 1980's I thought the racial attutde had changed until August 1987 when I saw a cross burning in the front yard of a young woman who had been dating an African American football player. I moved away soon after but returned this past October for Oildorado. I saw two very disturbing thins (1) the South High Marching band particiapted in the parade and people were yelling "N***** go back where you belong" and (2) the large of amount of people with visible swaztika tatoos. Despite the ethnic changes in the community, old views don't change, I guess. I too lived inTaft in the early 1970's. I was a kid, with Jewish roots, fresh off the plane from New York. I was picked on all the time but I guess I should have been grateful my skin is white because I cannot imagine how much worse it could have been. By the 1980's I thought the racial attutde had changed until August 1987 when I saw a cross burning in the front yard of a young woman who had been dating an African American football player. I moved away soon after but returned this past October for Oildorado. I saw two very disturbing thins (1) the South High Marching band particiapted in the parade and people were yelling "N***** go back where you belong" and (2) the large of amount of people with visible swaztika tatoos. Despite the ethnic changes in the community, old views don't change, I guess.

]]> By: SWSamurai http://www.samuraimarineblog.com/2009/10/11/how-do-we-end-racism/#comment-380 SWSamurai Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:40:23 +0000 http://www.samuraimarineblog.com/?p=710#comment-380 Thank you for the post, Curtis. Luckily my life in Taft was when I was very young, so most of the memories are not bad. Just some. Thank you for the post, Curtis.

Luckily my life in Taft was when I was very young, so most of the memories are not bad. Just some.

]]> By: Curt Barnes http://www.samuraimarineblog.com/2009/10/11/how-do-we-end-racism/#comment-379 Curt Barnes Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:35:42 +0000 http://www.samuraimarineblog.com/?p=710#comment-379 I found your website by Googling "Taft, California, racism" because I was looking for an article I read once about the integration of the Taft College football team, a "happy ending" aftermath that updated a horrific Sports Illustrated article. I attended Taft High '56-'60 and remember only one Jewish student, one who couldn't have stood out more. Flaming red hair, with the name "Greenberg", slight of build and interested in art, he was portrayed as gay and framed (I'm sure) so that it appeared he had propositioned a football player via a note in study hall. Merciless, they were to him. But I enjoyed your blog, think you've got a lot of hard-won wisdom to dispense. Sorry your own youth was so painful. As a white in Taft, I had it pretty easy, back then. I found your website by Googling "Taft, California, racism" because I was looking for an article I read once about the integration of the Taft College football team, a "happy ending" aftermath that updated a horrific Sports Illustrated article.

I attended Taft High '56-'60 and remember only one Jewish student, one who couldn't have stood out more. Flaming red hair, with the name "Greenberg", slight of build and interested in art, he was portrayed as gay and framed (I'm sure) so that it appeared he had propositioned a football player via a note in study hall. Merciless, they were to him.

But I enjoyed your blog, think you've got a lot of hard-won wisdom to dispense.
Sorry your own youth was so painful. As a white in Taft, I had it pretty easy, back then.

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