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Matter of fact, one of my aunts, she and her husband, they had like 15, 16, 17 children, right?
And they owned land.
They never had to work the fields and things like that.
They owned their own property.
Mm-hmm.
And we did our own thing.
It wasn't what you've been told that it was like.
That changed when the civil rights movement came along.
When we started to integrate with whites.
When you forced integration.
That should have never happened.
Blacks and whites would have come together on their own.
Those who agree and those who didn't agree, it would have happened naturally.
But you can't force anyone to love you.
And they were trying to force the white people to accept the blacks.
It was a big mistake.
And so it's just been down here ever since.
Back in those days, blacks had everything.
They had their own doctors, had their own transportation.
Yeah.