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We can learn from history and work to make our present and future better. The majority of white racist groups i. In my opinion, the Confederate flag symbolizes racism, hate, and white superiority which these groups practice and strongly believe in even today. Without question, racism is still alive and well in America and especially in Texas. Without question, the sign symbolized the feeling of the white community at the time it was posted.

I am 59 years old raised in Greenville, Texas and my black parents and grandparents told me of their racist horror stories and experiences in Greenville. He found out racism existed far above any of his expectations. I have an appointment with a doctor at the Hunt Hospital tomorrow. Since I would be driving from Prosper, I decided to really make the trip worthwhile by exploring Greenville. It seemed like an eternity to drive from Ft Worth to Jefferson.

I had heard enough stories from my grandmother, Nanah. I had been told of my dad having had a fight with a white boy, hidden by his father under a load of wood in a wagon to escape the piney woods of east Texas and the wrath of white men searching for him. I had seen blacks step out of the way in deference to a white person walking toward him.

So just imagine, for a minute, what that sign said to a black child who lived in a racist world constantly reminding us that we were not good enough, clean enough, smart enough, pure enough to be, not only, in Greenville but America at large. It is simply a reminder of an era we would prefer not to remember. How do we ever forget when we are still reminded in both blatant and subtle ways every day of our lives that we are not equal?

See my post on this matter as I was raised in this city and little has changed other than things are more subtle and less blatant as they were back in the s and s. Racism is alive and well in the US. I was born in Greenville in I remember the distinct segregation of blacks and whites. The sign, however, had nothing to do with the races. Anyone who ties the sign to race is mistaken. I wonder if there are any black people who use that phrase? It was a different time then….

Iwe moved to Greenville in And Greenville, it is a Good Town!!!! Including Me….. I got into a screaming match with some jackasses from the KKK the jackass and I were nose to nose screaming at each other because he was calling my friend Kelvin a ni55er and it pissed me off. Born there in 53 , the sign had nothing to do with skin color. Thanks for your input.

You may wish to review the impressions of others, especially African-American folks from Greenville. Perceptions differ and largely by race, hence the importance of sharing these differing perspectives please review the other posts. Hopefully developing sensitivities to how others view the sign will have a healing effect. Such is my hope. Unless you lived the life of a black person, you are not in a position to label people over sensitive about a sign.

I wish my grandparents and aunts from Greenville were alive so they could tell their horror stories during the 50s and 60s. We moved overseas shortly thereafter but returned for a few visits. Not just for blacks, but for everyone vulnerable, regardless of race, including the economically and educationally disadvantaged. I too remember the sign very well. I graduated in and was in the same class as Trudy. I grew up in Greenville but hopefully have grown out of some of the beliefs I had during the 50s and 60s.

Lastly, Plunkett Studios took great portraits. I spent 4 yrs in Commerce and well remember that sign when we drove to Greenville to shop or go to a doctor. Good Lord, most of the comments here are textbook examples of American white fragility look it up. News flash: It still is! As long as white Americans are choosing to be willfully ignorant and stubbornly, pridefully unrepentant about their truthful, honest history, NOTHING will change. Most of these comments prove it.

Delusional, or willfully evil? By the s a general merchandise store, three taverns, three grocery stores, a law office, two hotels, a drug store, and a few other businesses operated in the Hunt County seat. The Odd Fellows organized a lodge prior to the Civil War. While Hunt County prior to the s was not an important producer of traditional southern staple crops, such as cotton, rice, and sugar, the number of slaves there increased between and The county voted to in favor of joining the Confederacy.

During the war Greenville raised and supported a company of soldiers that saw action in Arkansas and eastern Tennessee. Additionally, the Greenville Guards, organized and led by an antisecessionist former state senator, Martin D. Hart , acted as an unofficial homeguard. The end of the war saw the stationing of two companies of federal cavalry in Greenville in Such action was taken largely to maintain peace in the county, which was threatened by a violent feud between exConfederates led by Capt.

By the force in Greenville had grown to include four companies of cavalry and one infantry. Greenville in began the practice of paying the tuition of interested students between the ages of eight and fourteen to attend any of the town's private schools. A school for freedmen opened in In the town took over the operation of local schools, renting the buildings for educational purposes.

The following year saw the purchase of land and construction of two public school buildings. Louis Southwestern Railway in , and the Texas Midland line in Greenville thus became a rail town, encouraging cotton production in Hunt County and stimulating the development of associated commercial and financial institutions.

By the mids Greenville was a leading cotton marketing location. Greenville's population was 3, by