Letter from San Bernardino
| Hello Mr. Flaherty. Just wanted to get the word out that black violence now being reported on a daily basis by individuals on their electronic devices is not a new phenomenon. The only thing we relied upon in the 60s was word of mouth and our feet to run as fast as we could. In 1968 at age 13, I entered Highland Junior high in the San Bernardino California school district, a predominantly white area where the schools had been built in the 20s. In 1968, the school district started integrating and blacks from the ghetto westside were bussed to all the schools in my area (lucky me) living in total ignorance I didn’t know what a n*gg*r (first time ever to hear that word) was or what to expect. Weeks later I would be saying it all the time. My mother gave me a quarter to buy milk which was stolen the first day and every day later or the threat of violence (my friend told me to hide the money in my sock but the blacks wised up to that). Every gym class the blacks would line up in the shower (the shower was a long hallway with a drying room) to urinate on the white kids, I never told anybody. The place was literally a war zone and I never told my parents, just lived through it. In 1971 I attended San Gorgonio High School and lived through a full blown race battle on campus where the busses full of blacks were stoned in the morning and racial tensions broke out at lunch with hundreds of fights, police lockdown, injuries, blacks today have escalated that activity 3 fold , just never heard about it then, sorry to b*tch systems normal. |
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