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In reply to the discussion: "School decides to read book on Black astronaut to all students after parent complains about it" [View all]CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)I sometimes wonder how I would have turned out if those years hadn't happened that way. I might have become a jerk to fit in with the majority. I do know that my parents weren't racist and I hadn't really heard the N-word used in Chicago.
That town up north is still predominantly white and I'd guess that those kids had never met any blacks until they (may have) gone to college or served in the military. The blacks in their existence were all on TV or in pro sports.
(By "white cohorts", I'm getting the vibe that you think I'm black. I'm an olive-skinned white guy with a slightly detectable Chicago accent that I'll never give up for anything.)
I have already forgiven one girl in the group. That was earlier this year--about 30 years after she died in her late 20s. I'm not totally bitter, just reflective.
These are not my usual posts. Where are the jokes? Oh, yeah...Mar-A-Lago.