Non-ancient History That Might Cause "Discomfort"

[live love laugh]

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[Easterncedar]

2. Yep. That makes me sick.

Now who can I sue?

[Hekate]

3. Non-ancient history lives on

[Maraya1969]

4. That is despicable. Like when that actress won an academy award for

Gone with the Wind as the house maid and she was not allowed into the regular room with everyone. When she won they brought her in from outside.

People can be so mean.


Hattie McDaniel is her name.

[Captain Zero]

5. Recently learned the Indiana county I grew up in

As late as 1948, if you were black, the county's first aid unit, one of the first EMT units in the US, would not transport you to the county hospital. If you were black.
I guess it explains Indiana today a little better.

Getting left at the side of the road. I was told they would call a funeral home whose hearse would take you to the hospital, I suppose if you were still alive.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. 1973, the Relf sisters involuntarily sterilized

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Relf_Sisters

[uponit7771]

7. K&R, even the most progressive dem pols of that time had to play for the attention of racist

[gulliver]

8. Not great, but he did get a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1976

And his hand wasn't sullied by shaking Hitler's.

[live love laugh]

9. Yes two positives.

[treestar]

10. FDR did not invite any athletes

https://www.whitehousehistory.org/running-against-the-world

The point is still made without having to make something up to try to make it worse.

[live love laugh]

11. So Trump-era historian, Sarah Fling, is right and USA Today and Obama

were wrong.

She came to the White House after Obama lauded Owens’ descendants for no reason apparently.

Sarah Fling came to the White House Historical Association in 2019 as a graduate public history fellow before joining as a historian in 2021. She received her bachelor’s degree in History from the University of Pittsburgh and her master’s degree in Public History from American University. Sarah specializes in material culture and nineteenth-century women’s history.

[treestar]

14. why would she have to be the one who is wrong

that's the White House Historical Association.

You're just attaching the messenger. Yes it is possible in the universe that Obama could be mistaken, USA today surely could be.

The answer is in the WH historical archives, if anyone can find a fete where FDR had the white Olympic Athletes there.

Maybe he had none because he did not want to have black ones. I think he would be more likely to have done that rather than have one just for white athletes.

[panader0]

12. Louis Zamperinni was a track star from USC who ran at the 1938 Olympics.

My dad met him (dad went to UC Berkley) and both later joined the Army Air Corp. Louis
supposedly stole a Nazi flag while in Berlin.

[CoopersDad]

13. Thank you!

I didn't know this.