Are there any Quora users who vividly remember the segregated South? If so, what are your most memorable recollections?
First I would like to point out that segregation was not just limited to the South. I grew up in Southern Indiana, and segregation was alive and well there as well. I was born in 1940, and when I was 9 or 10 years old, my dad took us to a football game at the one “Black” high school that blacks were permitted to attend. My Dad was a part of a group of Jaycees who helped support the school. My mother had a black maid the entire time I lived at home, so I grew up with a black lady as part of my home environment. I am so very thankful she was a part of my life. I never heard any racial slurs at home, but I heard them outside the home all the time. The blacks lived in a neighborhood near the center of town, and were not allowed to purchase a home outside that area. They could work only in menial jobs that paid little.I would also point out that my dad din’t have any black employees. To his credit, he paid the entire amount of our maids FICA and Social Security; nothing was deducted from her pay. When she could not work any longer, she was able to retire with a social security check every month. Later, she became ill, and my mother, a retired nurse, would visit her regularly and take her to the doctor when needed. But believe me that was not the norm.There were no lynchings in Indiana that I was aware of, but they continued in the South and I heard of them from time to time. I vividly remember the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy, who dared to face the bigots and challenge their activities, while asking only for peace and equal treatment that our Constitution calls for. I was saddened to think of the hatred that accompanied the era, and still feel the same way.I am a Freemason, and the one criticism I had concerning that institution was the lack of black members, and the refusal of Masonic Lodges to recognize the Prince Hall Masons (who are black). Then the Grand Lodges began to recognize Prince Hall Masons, except the Southeastern states, who, as one might expect, continue in their bigotry. I am a Texas Mason, and so very proud that we, as most of the state Grand Lodges, now not only recognize Prince Hall Masons, but also accept people of color, and of various religions into our lodges.
How bad was Obama as president?
Outside of Woodrow Wilson, who sold America out to international bankers with his federal reserve system and gave us the income tax, Obama is the worst president in US history.Within a few short months of assuming office he doubled the national debt. His multi-trillion bailout that was to give us shovel ready jobs went to international bankers.He and Hillary aided and abetted the Arab Spring movement which enabled Muslim terrorists to take over the Middle East, continuing with globalist plans launched under George Bush. Obama and McCain should be considered the founder of ISIS. They supported them throughout his presidency:Obama authorizes secret support for Syrian rebelsObamacare eviscerated US small businesses and small business starts went to all time lows. This was a tax that crushed job creation and quadrupled health care costs for the middle class in many cases.Obama used his power to shakedown US businesses with spurious lawsuits, to be settled out of court for cash. The cash was funneled to far left pressure groups like La Raza, the Urban League and the National Community Reinvestment CoalitionRead Newsmax: Shakedown of Corporations for Cash by Obama Abusive | Newsmax.comObama concocted a scheme to shut down the 2nd amendment by trying to implicate US gun manufacturers in the Mexican cartels drug wars. In operation Fast and Furious his administration bought guns from US manufacturers, then gave them to narco terrorists, and then planned to bust the drug runners and use that as political ammo to shut down the 2nd amendment.Obama used the IRS as a terrorist organization against conservative political opponents and had the IRS deny charity status to conservative organizations he disapproved of.Obama and Hillary conspired to help the Iran nuclear program by funneling US uranium through Russia and then to Iran. They received a big payout through the Clinton Foundation, which provided cash rewards to allies. That’s high treason.Finally in Obama’s last days he weaponized the judicial system against Donald Trump. First he illegally exposed NSA surveillance of Trump associates and then obtained phony warrants based on a completely faked story recycled from a 2007 Wall Street Journal article about Paul Manafort. He arranged the Mueller investigation to cover up his crimesOther than that I have no hard feelings about the guy.