re: #191 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Any white person of my generation who grew up in a house that their parents bought with a US government-backed mortgage was enjoying economic benefits generally denied to blacks at the time.

Anyone from a family which benefited from Depression-era jobs programs, WPA or CCC, also received economic aid that was denied to blacks.

Dad went into the CCC when he graduated from high school. They sent him to work in several places in Virginia. He noted that no blacks were allowed in the CCC…