re: #229 Joe Bacon 🌹

I remember that the JC Penney store in my home town would not allow people of color or Jews to shop there.

They were told to go to the Sears store a couple blocks away.

Our borough pool “requested” that people of color stay away.

Other shops and clubs were “restricted”

And this was in Western Pennsylvania right before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed…

I had the chore of explaining ‘white privilege’ to Mr. w. He got it really quick, but he started at ‘How can I be ‘privileged’ when I lived right across the street from the black millworkers?’ —in Western Pennsylvania.