Re: Pity Chrysler (was, The Dukes of Hazzard)

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 23:01:48 -0400, "Michael Johnson, PE"
<cds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Joe wrote:
>> "Michael Johnson, PE" <cds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>> news:cvidnd_9_MFb5HTfRVn-3Q@xxxxxxxxxxxx:
>>
>>
>>>Nay-Sayer wrote:
>>>
>>>>Well, as I recall, it was REALLY lopsided 30+ years ago.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Thirty plus years ago I was a pimply faced teenager growing up in a
>>>very small Midwestern town so I don't recall much of anything. We
>>>had less than 10 black students in our entire school system and they
>>>were treated just like everyone else. A person's race was never
>>>given much thought among us.
>>
>>
>> During my junior and senior years in high school ('69-'71) we went
>> through race riots on campus and in town. Talk about getting an
>> education in life real quick..
>
>I guess this was one of the benefits of growing up in small town
>America. When I graduated there was fewer than 400 people in the entire
>high school (grades 9-12) and I went to the largest high school in the
>county! One school had just over 100 students and that was for grades 1
>through 12. My school was the only one that could field a football
>team. I consider myself lucky that I grew up in a small community.
>
>The kids that live around me here in the Washington, DC area are much
>more jaded than my nieces and nephews growing up in my home town. Back
>home they get to be care free kids much longer.
>
My graduating class was 444 and I was # 222. Nice to be average :)

If one was to look at my year book you would at first glance see all
"white" smiling faces, but a second glance at last name would show a
certain level of diversity. Italians, Jews & Germans some the result
of inter-religion/racial marriages like Ana Maria Schwartz or Moshe
Donitelli. One doesn't really need to have "blacks" to have
diversity.
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