Intuitive fred888: The previous article doesn't surprise me because I grew up in the 1950s in the U.S.

Thursday, July 19, 2018

The previous article doesn't surprise me because I grew up in the 1950s in the U.S.

When I grew up I met people who said things like "Blacks are not human. They are a different species than white people."

I didn't agree with these people but I was a child at the time so I had to often listen to people who talked like this politely so I could get away from them.

So, likely these 100 black men died at the hands of people who believed they were not human (at least not like white people).

Even in high school I knew that there were football players at my school who went out with baseball bats to kill black men and gay men of all races on Friday and Saturday nights in places like Hollywood and Los Angeles nearby.

This was just how crazy and different the world was then even in California in the 1950s.

I was living in Glendale in the Greater Los Angeles area when the Watts riots of August 1965 happened. I was 17 then. Glendale was a white city (relatively speaking) in the area then with the best public schools in the Los Angeles area. My father moved there because I could get the best education in a public school there which I did when I was 8 through my junior year in High school and I graduated at a private church school in Santa Fe, New Mexico in May 1966 which was a boarding school.

But, in 1965 it was summer vacation and I saw the smoke of Watts burning from where I lived and it was pretty scary for everyone then. People didn't think at all the way people do now about things and mostly I was scared because white people were up in the hills shooting their weapons target practicing to kill any black people who came into Glendale. If you came into Glendale while the Watts riots were on you likely would have been shot by one of these extremists then if you were black. I was just scared because what was happening just seemed insane to me on every level imaginable: And it was!

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The Watts riots, sometimes referred to as the WattsRebellion, took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles from August 11 to 16, 1965. ... The riots were blamed principally on police racism.