1ºJohn Davidson why does a meme of a well-known actor with a popular saying that you probably watched and laughed at hurt you? I mean, you are the guy who said there wasn't anyone here 300 years ago. It may have been your snarky attempt at sarcasm because America is only 246 years old, but it was still dumb. You know what she meant when she said 300 years. She was actually wrong, too. Black people have been here since 1619. 403 years and we're still having black first achievements. There's no hatred at all from me. I actually feel sorry for you.
2ºValerie Mortensen read before commenting. This story was more about the blatant sexism of the '60s and '70s which was a cultural norm while ignoring racism in order to become successful. She had to maintain her weight, speak a foreign language, and demonstrate a graceful walk to even be selected for training. She mentioned race as something she happened to be that didn't define her potential for success at a time when it often did. She didn't think much about it. Your criticism now is based on you thinking you're bombarded with firsts by blacks. Her accomplishment of something that had never been done then isn't lessened by your criticism now.
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4ºJohn Davidson I have shown how Lu-Ann is willing to overlook talking about how sexist American culture was in the '60s and '70s just because the article talked briefly about how racist American culture was back then. Even the subject of the article said she chose to ignore racism, and instead focused on the excitement of traveling the world, which is what this story was truly about. Lu-Ann didn't care about that part either. Lu-Ann simply cared that an accomplishment by a black woman was published, and it bothers her so much that she commented about it. None of her contempt for reading about a black person's accomplishment has anything to do with my self esteem. I still don't know how reading about a black person's accomplishment hurts some white people, but I guess it does in some way. Must be their low self-esteem.
5ºThree of my friends were stewardesses. One is Lebanese American, very beautiful, and multilingual in English and French and several Arabic languages. She majored in the Romance Languages and went to law school in Texas. In the first year of law school, she too read an ad that Pan AM was looking for stewardesses who spoke several languages, primarily Italian in her case. She got the job, and flew back and forth to Italy, France,and South America. She met her wealthy Italian husband in first class, married him and had a daughter. Then she returned to finish law school, and eventually became Assistant District Attorney of Harris County (Houston). Another friend from Nuevo Laredo, also flew with Pan Am to European cities. She met and married a German whose family owned the German rights to Coty cosmetics. She settled in Dusseldorf and had four blond daughters who each had Mexican names, considered pretty exotic in Germany. A third friend, from Hamburg, trained with Lufthansa Airlines but was crushed when she was told she was too haughty to be a stewardess. However, she stayed in the hospitality industry and used to serve as a guide for German tourists who visited the USA for six week excursions. She soon found out that her travelers's favorite activities were in the West where they got to visit with Native Americans, visit rodeos and ride horses. I too traveled the world, not as a stewardess but as a writer and academic. Many of us who finished our second or third degrees in the 1960s and had the travel bug got to see large portions of the world, not as tourists but as sojourners on educational programs at a period when the world was still pretty safe and travel was financially accessible. And so we kept bumping into each other in the great cities of Western and Eastern Europe and of the Americas. Some of us also participated in the Peace Corps and in the Experiment for International Living.. Some were awarded Fulbright lectureships or Rockerfeller fellowships or Ford dissertation grants. Those really were the days, my friends, when youth thought we had it all, with the Korean War behind us and the Viet Nam not yet an issue.