Jackson Free Press

Got this emailed to me from a college classmate. Obviously something circulating on the internet..thought Id share and get your thoughts...Add a few if you come up with any..Lets keep the list going..

Scenario: Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.
1957 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and g ets his shotgun t o show Jack.
2007 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.

Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.
1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2007 - Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.

Scenario: Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students.
1957 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by the Principal. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2007 - Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.

Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
1957 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2007 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. State psychologist tells Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has affair with psychologist.

Scenario: Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school
1957 - Mark shares aspirin with Principal out on the smoking dock.
2007 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.

Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed.
1957 - Ants die.
2007 - BATF, Homeland Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated, Johnny's Dad goes on a terror watch li st and is never allowed to fly again.

Scenario: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.
1 957 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2007 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy.

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116120

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How about this: Scenario - 1957: Black kids come to a school in the south and find nooses hanging from a tree on campus. Principal laughs and later thanks the parents of the white kids who hung the nooses at the local Klan meeting that night. Nothing is done to the perpetrators 2007: Black kids come to a school in the south to find a noose hanging from a tree on campus. Outrage ensues from the Black community. Big March. District Attorney laughs..thanks the parents of the white kids who hung the nooses at the local Klan meeting that night. Nothing substantial is done to the perpetrators. Actually..thats not much difference huh? Daaaaamn! in fact black kids werent even in school with white kids in '57..My bad lol

Author

Kamikaze

Date

2007-12-30T15:33:15-06:00

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116121

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Sorry Kamikaze, 2007: any kid comes to school to find a noose hanging from a tree and everyone, white and black, would be/should be outraged. As far as going to school together, depends on what part of the country you are from. Up North, white and black kids have been going to school together forever. Down South, it was 1971 before white and black kids went to school together. I know, I was there. As far as the initial email, in 1957, I was 4 years old and actually remember most of what the scenarios refer to in my early years. They were good years. We could walk or ride our bikes almost anywhere (and did) without our parents worrying. How did we get so lost from them to now? We are reacting to the "scariness" of the world but do we have to "throw the baby out with the bath water"? NOYRSELF

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NOYRSLF

Date

2007-12-30T21:10:59-06:00

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116122

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personally, I appreciate how *no girls* went to school in 1957. At least according to those scenarios. The only people nostsalgic for the 1950s tend to be white men. And, after watching "Mad Men", I can see why. (Yes, I know, Mad Men set in the 1960s, but you get the idea.)

Author

kate

Date

2007-12-31T08:30:34-06:00

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116123

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NOYRSLF- MOM??? What are you doing on here?

Author

Lori G

Date

2008-01-02T08:38:08-06:00

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116124

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Kaze-I think my mom just "spanked" you. :) Go easy on her. I got my mouth from somewhere.

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Lori G

Date

2008-01-02T08:47:49-06:00

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116125

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I ain't the kind to start mess, but those white female teachers have been off the chain recently. They're hitting on more young boys than the star linebacker on the football team. What's up with that these days? I ain't saying other female teachers aren't doing it too, but if they are, they aren't amking the news as much.

Author

Ray Carter

Date

2008-01-02T09:23:58-06:00

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116126

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Im good Lori..THAT was a spanking? LOL. I was strictly referring to the south. Think I stated it in my scenario. Northerners had long since started integrating before we did. And sorry NOYRSLF not everyone in the south would have been outraged. Infact in 1957 folks wouldnt have taken a second glance. They SHOULD have been outraged ...true! But wouldnt have been. A little northern optimism at the time I suppose. But that makes excuses for the blatant ignorance that existed and still exists in the south. 1957 may have been tender years for you but its a dark time that a lot of Black folks dont shoose to glorify trust me.

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Kamikaze

Date

2008-01-02T11:16:34-06:00

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116127

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HA! Her spankings of me are much worse...trust me. Although, I wish she would come back because, while her family is northern (grandmother is Italian and hails from NJ), Mom was around when they integrated schools in the Delta (Cleveland) to be exact. I'm very sure she has interesting memories of that time.

Author

Lori G

Date

2008-01-02T11:31:29-06:00

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116128

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northers did not intergrate as well as you folks may like to think...some of the most violent protests to intergration were in boston...

Author

skipp

Date

2008-01-02T14:52:55-06:00

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116129

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Boston and some other places, too, Skipp. The northerners badmouthed the south something terribly as long as blacks stayed down south and until too many italians, Irish catholics, jews and others migrated there. We then learned many northerners weren't all that glad to have us up there either. Some even built projects to keep negroes in a certain area of confinement.

Author

Ray Carter

Date

2008-01-02T14:57:32-06:00