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names_are_useless t1_ja69cql wrote

Reply to comment by Playful-Excuse-8081 in My MIL & her brothers, 1960s. by yttikat

Considering MLK's Anti-Capitalist views: if he were still alive today and held the same views as he did: he'd be blasted as a Radical Socialist (that much I suppose is true) and Far Leftist (he didn't like either poliitical parties) by the Media.

People either forget or don't know: MLK was NOT popular in his day. I remember one poll showing only about 25% of the entire country thinking positively of him when he was still alive. Newspapers would blame him for Black Riots (he'd be treated like BLM is today, maybe worse).

It wasn't until the Reagan Administration when MLK Day was conceptualized and his message and persona has been white-washed and relegated to one famous line from his "I Have a Dream Speech":

> I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

You don't see nearly as many people using these later quotes of his:

> Whenever the issue of compensatory treatment for the Negro is raised, some of our friends recoil in horror. The Negro should be granted equality, they agree; but he should ask nothing more. On the surface, this appears reasonable, but it is not realistic. > > A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for the Negro.

Probably less than 50% of America wants the actual MLK back. A majority of the population only want the "Let's just say we're equal now and not stir anymore pots" white-washed MLK that is actually celebrated.

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butterflypoo69 OP t1_ja68wdh wrote

Reply to comment by MalteseGyrfalcon in “Color Magic Barbie” introduced in 1966 by Mattel. Special crystals were used to make the doll’s hair and swimsuit change color. Barbara Millicent Martin is presented as as actual person by Mattel, as is Hello Kitty by Sanrio 😎 by butterflypoo69

“Sanrio depicts Hello Kitty as an anthropomorphized white cat with a red bow and no visible mouth. According to her backstory, she lives in a London suburb with her family, and is close to her twin sister Mimmy, who is depicted with a yellow bow.”

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Magnet50 OP t1_ja67fy5 wrote

Reply to comment by WomanNotAGirl in My mother, about 18 years old in a hand-tinted black & white photograph taken in Istanbul, Turkey, guessing 1947 or so. by Magnet50

She was born in Izmir, Turkey. Her younger brother was sickly so she was sent to Istanbul to live with grandparents. Her parents and brother moved to Istanbul later.

She was accepted into Robert’s College, which, despite its name is a 5 year high school. The first year is intensive English and the remaining 4 years are taught in English, except for a Turkish history class. She already spoke French (spoken in the house), Spanish, Turkish and Italian and as I learned many years later, about 200 words in Greek.

She went to work for the manager of the Pan Am station at Ataturk Airport and in 1948/49 a Pan Am radio-officer/navigator asked her for an appointment with her boss. She asked the reason and he said he needed an advance on his salary. She suggested that he budget better and sent him away. On the next trip he had he asked her out. Their first 5 dates were chaperoned by her aunts.

About a year later, they married in three ceremonies, one in a Catholic Church, one Turkish civil ceremony and one ceremony at the American consulate.

She went to live Queens, New York with my father and had a job as a simultaneous Turkish/French/Spanish/English translator until my older brother came along.

My father was by then flying for Aramco Airlines before Aramco offered him a significant new role in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, which is where I was born.

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