Can MAGA Be That Dumb?

I graduated from high school in 1962. At that time, if I wanted to go out and get a full-time job, the ads in the newspapers listed jobs for men and women in separate sections. A woman might get a job which usually went to a man, but the law allowed an employer to pay her a lesser wage.

The law also allowed someone who wanted to sell a home to advertise the property as being ‘restricted,’ which meant blacks and Jews shouldn’t bother to look at the house because they wouldn’t have an opportunity to buy it, even if they paid cash.

If you drove down the newly opened New Jersey Turnpike, it ended when you crossed the Delaware Memorial Bridge. The very first drive-in on Route 40 in Delaware had a sign which read: ‘colored in back.’ This wasn’t Alabama or Mississippi; this was in Delaware, okay?

And by the way, if you were driving to Florida and you were a black couple or God forbid a couple of mixed race, forget getting a motel room unless you got off the main roads and found some crummy, little place to sleep in a black town, or what they referred to in South Carolina as a ‘scrinchy’ town. Sleeping on a pull-out couch on some black family’s porch also worked.

A woman couldn’t terminate a pregnancy legally in any of the 50 states. Gay couples couldn’t get married anywhere in the United States and there were still lots of states…