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To: michael97123 who wrote (418271)	9/19/2008 2:07:50 PM
From: Sun Tzu	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571399

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To: michael97123 who wrote (418271)	9/19/2008 2:08:18 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571399

I agree with both statements. Jimmy Carter was too much of the "eat your spinach" kind of leader and our country would be much worse off without the civil rights movement. I wish the energy initiatives of the 1970s had been continued. Way out in rural Texas there weren't many blacks, but the civil rights movement still had a big impact. In the day all the hispanic students stood in groups on one side of the parking lot while the anglos were in groups on the other. There was very strong pressure not to mingle in the middle. It wasn't a case of overt hostility. It was hard to know what the silly social rules were on any given day. That began to change around 1968. By the time I went back for a 30th reuinion we could all sit together and marvel over the way you could be good friends in private and walk on opposite sidewalks in public. TP