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I know I am from England on these boards but I am surprised that out off the two posts I have put up Not a single reply or comment
I think I will just read the boards and pick your brains for info etc
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you can say that again [:D][:D] 0 -
Whooo.
Did you take that last night, David >>
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That is a scan of a post card that was sold in drug stores around here as late as the mid-1980s. The actual sign was taken down around 1970.
Here is an old photo of the sign. It is still in storage somewhere.
A lot of people wanted the sign down, for obvious reasons. The sign also had its proponents, who vehemently stated that the wording had nothing to do with racism. Yeah, right.
It's just a part of history.
Somewhere around here, stuck inside a book, I have a cardboard sign printed and distributed by the Lone Star Restaurant Association. The sign reads:
NO DOGS
NEGROES
MEXICANS
It, like the old Greenville sign, is just a relic of an earlier time.0 -
It appears the sign has been repaired. I was noticing the word people. Someone take a shot at it?0 -
I don't know. I never saw the actual sign.
I guess I am feeling ornery tonight. I posted a picture of that sign once before, and a co-worker of mine saw it, and he ran around telling anyone who would listen that I was posting racist material on the forums.
LOL. Since the "official" story is that the sign does not refer to race, posting a picture of it cannot, by definition, be racist, can it?0 -
It's amazing what 'being used to something' will do for its acceptability. Thanks for posting those.
My father was a 10th-generation white South African. Mom's from WI, and they were married in SA, where they lived for somewhat over 20 years. Early in their marriage, when planning a trip to the states to visit my maternal grandparents, Mom thought it would be cool to take the QE2 up the coast of Africa, rather than to fly. Then she was told (this was the mid-sixties) that many of the ports on the African coast carried signs reading: "No dogs or South Africans." They scrapped that plan.
I don't know if the bit about the signs was true: she was getting that information from her (South African) in-laws. Whether or not the signs were there, the sentiments almost certainly were: South African Airways was denied passage through the airspace of ANY African country while the Apartheid regime was in power. Made for a MIGHTY long flight from Jo'burg to NY. Today, it's still a long flight (19 hours) but can be done without a stop. Back then, it was impossible to make the trip without a re-fueling stop in the Canary Islands.0 -
hehe, no, but it can be percieved as being racist - by people who are overly sensitive on the racial thing.
No worries.. =o)0
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