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No, I don't think I will ever return. It was a horrible experience (not because of these few happenings, but overall with being in the Navy overseas). It's not something I ever want to do again.

Sheldon, right?

Lol, no he is getting there a few days later. We had to pay a company to ship him (it costs 1300 bucks!) because the Navy refused to book us on a United flight where he could be a carry on. So now we have to hope that he is ok as he flys cargo on Friday.

Wow, that is one expensive little bunny. I'm sure he's worth it. I hope the flight doesn't scare him and that you have a happy reunion. I'm sure I'm not the only one looking forward to bunny pictures.

Haha, I really do need to update my display picture. That was him over 3 years ago.

In preEngland Ireland women and Jews were equal. If a child was so hungry that he stole bread it was that shame on the community that a child should be hungry.

Not sure how that relates but cool

Human rights.

I guess but ireland never fell. It kinda just transitioned.

Ireland most certainly did fall. The British conquered it. Cromwell slaughtered people. And one town he put every single person in the church. The baby at the breast too old. He stacked pear around the The cathedral and roasted everybody live. The pillage the con vents in the church and turn them in to the church of England. It was a death sentence to speak the tongue. Thus bush schools were established. If you improved your land you were throwing off. When the potato famine hit people were throwing off their land to starve to death.

Never heard of that. I haven't set foot in the US for a year and a half though, so I don't really keep up with any events.

My son is retired Navy my son-in-law's retired Marine

Back to Maryland! It's where all her family is at and I didn't get selected for orders to Tennessee where my family was at. So at least we are near one of our families.

That's wonderful!! It'll be nice to be close to family and TN isn't that far of a drive from MD. Thanks for your service. You and your family are appreciated!

EXCITED grandparents!!!!!

So treat other people as if you would be treated that way yourself. If you wouldn't want to be denied service somewhere because of your skin color or sexual preference, don't do it to someone else.
That being said, I always found a place to take my money when I wanted food and the all mighty dollar (or Yen in this case) speaks louder any xenophobia and you will find someone to accept you, if you try hard enough. I still believe that anyone should be able to deny the right to serve anyone else, but now I do it with first hand experience from the other side. It sucks, but I wouldn't want to give my money to someone who hated me for no reason anyways.

When it happens to someone personally, it certainly puts a different spin on things.

It happened to my family in Alabama because my hubby is Hispanic. The restaurant we were in told us they were out of food.... really?

Yeah, it really shakes a person up. It's weird and sort of angering but when you stop and think about it, why am I getting upset that I'm not paying this person who hates me any money. I can find someone who accepts me and give them money instead. Let that business suffer because of it.

Iamamerican I'm surprised at that, because I live in an AL community that has a LOT of Hispanics. Was this many years ago or recently? Were you just traveling through AL at the time? What restaurant was it?

Now I HAVE been to fast food places and told they were out of CERTAIN foods, especially if it's later at night, and that is legitimate.

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Part 2. Swervin, we got to experience what you experienced when we moved to Baton Rouge and our kids were in school there. There had been white flight from the schools. All that could afford $500 per month per child had their kids in private school, leaving a VAST majority black school system.

When we walked into the gym for an assembly on the first day of school, my son was walking really stiffly. I asked him what was wrong, and he said, "Where are the white people?" I looked around and saw he was correct.

I later had to take a school project to him that he had left at home, and when I walked into his classroom, my child and I were the only whites in the room.

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Part 3. Of course, all of this was intimidating enough, without factoring in that the black students wore shirts to school that said, "Whites enslaved my ancestors, so I'm going to kill whites." And this kind of thing was allowed in school. Kids were pulling knives and guns on bus drivers, so I didn't even try to get a job there.

Our sons were transferred to a "better" school for advanced students the next year. It was surrounded by a fence with razor wire, and you had to ring a door bell and talk through an intercom to gain entrance to the school.

We QUICKLY learned that we were VERY protected in AL and that the NOTORIOUS race relations problems that AL is stereotypical for were NOTHING compared to other places. We'd never had those kinds of problems in AL.

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This was years ago in Huntsville and I'm sure things have changed. It was a restaurant affiliated with the motel we were staying in. We didn't have a problem with anything else while we were there.
I have family who lives there and has for years.

Thanks, Iamamerican. I'm glad to hear you haven't had that experience in AL since then. I'm so sorry that you did that once. I'm very sensitive about the stereotypical views that most people have about the state that I love! Lol

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It's a great place to visit....except for the tornadoes! 😊

I love your insight. You have truly grown.

I really stopped respecting unions when I was ticketing for the farmer workers union. The Teamsters union did not hesitate to cross the picket line. They would've brought this down with their trucks. I guess pick up lines are only important for white people at the time.

Thanks Tops. I really do learn a lot in the Navy, even if it sucks sometimes. 😆

A coworker at our site in Middletown Va where his lived for 18 yrs (born and bred two towns south) told me he had few friends in Middletown. He said that if you Grandpappy ain't buried here you don't belong here! And I thought Vermonters were bad!

I live in Hawaii and have had that type of treatment . It just makes you weary

I lived in Brooklyn and we were the 40th street boys, our rivals were the 39th St boys.

This is why we need anti-discrimination laws.

We have them......but many things have been turned upside down in the last 8 years.

Swervin, we experienced the same thing when we moved to Baton Rouge and my kids were in all black schools. And whites are going to be experiencing what this is like very soon in America! Check out this article:

www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/05/17/explaining-why-minority-births-now-outnumber-white-births/

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