President Carter: "It was five people, other than my own parents, who shaped my life, and only two of them are white. The other three were black

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President Jimmy Carter: 'I Was The Only White Child In The Neighborhood'

What you didn’t know about the former president’s childhood (and how it changed the rest of his life)

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Jimmy Carter was born James Earl Carter Jr. on October 1, 1924. He grew up in the rural town of Archery, Georgia. When he wasn’t helping his father on the peanut farm, he was fishing or playing in the woods with his friends, most of whom were African-American.

“The people with whom I worked in the field, and the people with whom I wrestled and fought, and the people with whom I went fishing and hunting were all African-Americans,” President Carter told Oprah in an interview taped a few weeks before the former president announced he has melanoma. “I felt, kind of, in an alien culture when I got old enough to go to a white school and that sort of thing.”

Ultimately, the former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner said in this weekend’s “SuperSoul Sunday” interview, growing up as the only white child in a predominantly black community had a profoundly positive impact on his life.

 

[Costanza]

 

[julian]

President Carter is genuinely a good man and I always thought he was too gentlemanly to be in politics and it showed cause he wasn’t able to do the dirty shit he needed to do to be re-elected in 1980.

 

[Costanza]

President Carter is genuinely a good man and I always thought he was too gentlemanly to be in politics

I’m most impressed by him on Palestine. I’m not sure we’ve had a genuinely good and caring person as president since Carter.

 

[Costanza]

and it showed cause he wasn’t able to do the dirty shit he needed to do to be re-elected in 1980.

Eh. Not sure anyone has won reelection with an economy like he was dealing with in 1980.

 

[Leatherf7ce]

He’s a great man. Rare soul. Sometimes the stories still don’t match the person. Gave a family member directly a life changing opportunity. Show me one other president that tried to help with the position. People acknowledge "the deep state" but don't speak on how's difficult it is to navigate their waters. These days they won't even let an idealist leave the dock, so to speak. There's a ton that probably won't come out until his passing but he has my respect and I can maybe say that about like five white dudes

 

[Walter Panov]

I believe him. Cacs hated him so much they elected Satan after.