re: #153 A Three Hour Tour

In 1979, the Klan went on a recruitment drive in Tidewater. It was a topic of gossip among junior high white kids in Chesapeake. WAVY-TV’s YouTube archive has several stories posted about this event. I’m sorry - I’m having trouble copying and pasting embed code on my Fire tablet.

Had no idea about that. My father’s father died in 1979. Eight years before I was born. So I never knew Dad’s Dad but the story about him that sticks in my mind and this is why I don’t have patience for people wanting to just shrug off racism as the past or whatever is how adamant he was about a certain racial slur never to be used by his sons or daughters.