Music-wise, I had a blessed childhood

[jeri fletcher]

I grew up in Levittown, PA where the local churches joined to establish our little Christian school during the 60's race wars. I remember my older brother coming home from public high school with bloody bandages once.

The younger kids got to go to the new Christian school, and parents car pooled their kids. Every morning we'd listen to great Christian music on the Harry Bristow Show on 860 AM. Harry also had a Christian Cinema in Ambler!
At chapel we'd be treated to many of the artists we heard on the radio: Ralph Carmichael, Dick Anthony, Bill Pearce, Harold DeCou, John W. Peterson and the Peterson Trio, the Gaithers, Dave Boyer, Doug Oldham, Flo Price and Paul Mickelson, and Diane Susek.
When these people came to town, they'd make the rounds and we could see them several times before they left!
Those were the good old days. My heroes and their families are still faithfully serving the Lord. That's really comforting.

[captain_solo]

Quote:I grew up in Levittown, PA where the local churches joined to establish our little Christian school during the 60's race wars. I remember my older brother coming home from public high school with bloody bandages once.

You shouldn't say this out loud. The Fundy Mafia does not want anyone talking about the real reason they started the Christian Day-School movement, (and the Fundy U movement, the Christian Camping movement...) People are supposed to think it was part of the biblical commands for how to raise children (hint, all those passages are directed at parents, not churches). They did it supposedly for spiritual reasons, and also so that the teachers would all know the author of truth (part of the ridiculous joke that is known as "regenerate church membership"), and to protect the kiddos from the evils of modern culture (alternate rendering: non-white people and their music)

[elfdream]

Race wars?

[jeri fletcher]

(08-21-2012 12:56 PM)captain_solo Wrote:  

Quote:I grew up in Levittown, PA where the local churches joined to establish our little Christian school during the 60's race wars. I remember my older brother coming home from public high school with bloody bandages once.

You shouldn't say this out loud. The Fundy Mafia does not want anyone talking about the real reason they started the Christian Day-School movement, (and the Fundy U movement, the Christian Camping movement...) People are supposed to think it was part of the biblical commands for how to raise children (hint, all those passages are directed at parents, not churches). They did it supposedly for spiritual reasons, and also so that the teachers would all know the author of truth (part of the ridiculous joke that is known as "regenerate church membership"), and to protect the kiddos from the evils of modern culture (alternate rendering: non-white people and their music)

Hopefully the FM won't read my posts, lol.
I was protected from violence, and was happy to have black Christian friends in our school.

[DaisyDeadhead]

(08-21-2012 01:20 PM)elfdream Wrote:  Race wars?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desegregati...ted_States

White people would turn whole buses of kids over, with the kids in them. It was on the news every single night.

And yeah, those kids would get an attitude. And it was on.

I went to a Junior High with a lot of problems like that... my first year it was about 30% black, second year about 50-50, but by the third year, the whites had left in droves and those of us left were in the minority. In fact, I would say it had totally reversed and we were the 30%.

Speaking of music, for this reason I was introduced to great music like Funkadelic, Ohio Players and the Stylistics... if I had to listen to um, that other stuff, I would have slit my wrists and ran away from home.

I recently wrote (page down to bottom) about a (black) CNN news correspondent who played my dad in a school play: http://daisysdeadair.blogspot.com/2012/0...al-go.html
A couple of younger people emailed me and honestly did not see why this was controversial at the time! A lot of this was due to the charged racial atmosphere, and I took for granted everyone knew that, but they don't.

The fact that this casting is now fairly common in schools? I take that as a win!

[DaisyDeadhead]

(08-21-2012 01:28 PM)jeri fletcher Wrote:  I was protected from violence, and was happy to have black Christian friends in our school.

I'm curious --what were the racial percentages, roughly speaking? I didn't know anyone at all who went to "Christian schools", other than neighborhood parish Catholic schools. But then, I predate the whole movement (she said, sounding fairly ancient).

I ask since I've always heard (as Solo says) lots of whites sent their kids to these schools so they wouldn't go have to school with black people. I didn't know that substantial numbers of blacks (rather than a handful) sent their kids to them.

I do know of a few "Afrocentric" schools, which are sort of the same thing in reverse.

[jeri fletcher]

(08-21-2012 04:16 PM)DaisyDeadhead Wrote:  Speaking of music, for this reason I was introduced to great music like Funkadelic, Ohio Players and the Stylistics... if I had to listen to um, that other stuff, I would have slit my wrists and ran away from home.

I love great music and my kids have the good sense to enjoy Earth, Wind & Fire. Nobody has to run away from home, here.

There were only a handful of blacks in our small school. Two high schoolers with sibs in lower grades.
We lived in a VA loan neighborhood with lots of military families. My cousins, who lived next door and a few other families on our street went to the local Catholic school. We would have probably gone, but my mom got saved at a Bible study. Then the churches started the Christian school for it's members.

[DaisyDeadhead]

(08-21-2012 05:12 PM)jeri fletcher Wrote:  I love great music and my kids have the good sense to enjoy Earth, Wind & Fire.

"That's the way of the World" is one of the greatest songs of all time.

A child is born with a heart of gold
The way of the world makes his heart grow cold