Reply #34: I Moved To Florida As A Young Boy In 1970 [View All]

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Having fairly liberal parents my political opinions were pretty well formed...I know my mom went as a Kennedy voter in 1980 to the Democratic caucus in Daytona Beach and was hassled (given a hard time) by the Carter Democrats...

My teachers, suprisingly for the most part were rather liberal except for the ones who insisted we say "Yes maam" and "Yes sir" which is not such a bad thing now that I'm older... A modicum of civility isn't a bad thing... Something that sticks with me to this day is my eighth grade science teacher, Ms. Wooten, who was the wife of the crew cutted phys ed teacher, Mr. Wooten railing about the illegality of Richard Nixon's mining of the Haiphong Harbor... Those were heady days with racial tension running rampant as Volusia County, Florida was ,I believe ,two years removed from a court ordered desegregation plan... I always gravitated toward my African American teachers... They would ell me of parents refusing or complaining about an African American teaching their kid...

Wow... Back in time...