I miss the days....

 I miss the days……..   

The days when people were more relaxed..  instead of looking for hate.  No matter which side…   now days..  there is hate every where.. of anything..  seems like the Ugly American they talked about in the 1950’s..  is back alive a not well..   All the of the ones who were looked down at,  when they would spew  nastiness..    words to destroy.. most of us looked at them with disgust.     Enough so that they would not say it unless they were around their own..  they were the 5 %...   I think a lot of us thought it was the bottom of the barrel of the South..  maybe because that is where we thought of the KKK group who tried their best to promote hate… prejudices… mostly there were of the blacks.. 

But for a short time..   in maybe the 80’s heading into the  ..1990’s the blacks were starting to get respect…   that people were starting to see there were good and bad black people .. just like the whites…    so they were enjoying actors, and actresses,   singers, and etc..  Lawyers, and bankers and then Senators and Representatives .    Even gays started to live without having to look over their  shoulders..   Finding out that they  too, were fine people,  singers, actors, or just the guy down the road who has a flower shop…  the lawyer who steps up and shows they too know the laws and can win a case of many…     People were finally look at them all as if they are just another human being.    But some where .. around the beginning of 2000…  things started to fall apart..  and by 2016.. the hate was back in vengeance … bring it to focus was Mr. Trump..  he showed them that prejudices were alive and well.    And the under current came up and the ones where 1. Didn’t know what to do,  didn’t know how stand up for those who were now targets again..      I don’t understand..  I have been .. around and had and have friends of these  groups…  NOT ONE GAY PERSON..  asked me to be gay…  they treated me like I was me…  NOT ONE BLACK person tried to change me…   when they saw respect..  I got respect back.     And the one that really throws me is the hatred that is back from the 1920’s.   the hatred of the Jewish people..   See I was raised around a lot of Jewish people..  my parents had a lot of Jewish friends..   never heard my parents say anything negative about Jewish people..    Our town has the oldest Synagogue in the USA.

I babysat for a Jewish family..   I also worked for a produce man..  who taught me a LOT..   there were never any negative words said…  I just don’t understand.   After I was a full blown adult, that I had read of prejudices in New Jersey…  I was shock.   I went to school  with Jewish…   I don’t get it..

AND WHY IS THIS UGLY BACK?   WHY?     We have always had some kind of prejudices..  We had Catholics not wanting their kids to date and or marry Greece.. or Protestants… or Jewish not wanting their kids to date and marry out of their religious group..      but none  of hate about color,  and about feelings.. and etc..      They just wanted to stay in their own religion…

OH, HOW I WISH I COULD TURN BACK THE CLOCK ON HATE…  Just when we were starting to accept each other for who they were..    they weren’t trying to change you to who they were…   they just want to be themselves..  and for you to be yourself…  

Guess, my ex was right…  I wear rose color glasses..  

 

 

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