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  • disregardable@lemmy.zip
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    She turned the white house solarium into a kindergarten for her children and some select other kids. She included White House Press Secretary Andrew Hatcher’s son, who was African American. https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/02/08/obamas-girls-teddys-boys-jackie-kennedys-kindergarten-school-tales-of-white-house-kids/

    “Her support of civil rights showed in her integration of daughter Caroline’s school class, in her support for a memorial to black activist Mary McLeod Bethune, in her visits to poverty-stricken areas of Washington, DC, and in her request that a black opera singer entertain at the White House.” https://millercenter.org/president/kennedy/essays/kennedy-1961-firstlady

    So, as far as the official narrative is concerned, no. She was on board with her husband’s civil rights platform.

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    Probably. But not any more so than any other privileged white woman of that era.

    Source: Just an assumption, as I haven’t stumbled across anything explicitly stating that she was anything else.

    EDIT: I’ll defer to Disregardable for more substance, as it would seem she was actually LESS racist than her contemporaries.

    • VaderOP
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      6 days ago

      Just an assumption

      You could have just said “I don’t know” LMAO

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        It’s a fair point though, what they considered not racist and what I consider not racist are two different things.