Glen: How right you are. Jane Steele -----Original Message----- >From: glenn <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Oct 16, 2007 11:30 AM >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] New Quaker Oats ad: "Ticket out of Virginia" > >Come on now. The operative phrase in the original post was "...an >attractive, older African-American couple..." I am only 51 years old and was >involved in the second year of court ordered busing in 1968 as a junior high >student at Harry A. Hunt in Portsmouth VA. And, I do not consider my self an >older African American. In addition, I am old enough to remember places in >Portsmouth and Norfolk where we could go, especially Ocean View Beach, the >Commodore Theatre to name two. > >And racial discrimination is not the only reason to leave Virginia. There >are some fine persons of all types of ethnic backgrounds in Virginia. I left >not because of racism. I left in 1979 because the better engineering jobs >outside of the military industrial complex were not in Virginia. > >As for racism, the Commonwealth of Virginia was not and is not the worst. I >have seem far worst in the Deep South but nothing compared to the covert >racism practiced here in the State of California. Most don't realize that >until the mid 1950's in California it was state law that Asians could not >legally attend school with either Caucasians nor African Americans. And >Latinos were not considered sanitary. > >So in the final analysis, I would leave the Quaker Oats commercial alone. >There are plenty of reasons to leave any place. VIRGINIA IS truly FOR >LOVERS; but, economic concerns can cause one to seek a ticket out. > >Glenn Gregory, Graduate >Old Dominion University, BSCE, 1979 >Woodrow Wilson High School, Portsmouth VA, 1974 >Publicity Manager, Student Government Association, WWHS, 1973-1974 Lillian Jane Steele