Some thoughts of 77 yr old white male from the south

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9. Sounds familiar. I am an 80 yr old white female

born in the south and raised in Philadelphia for the first 9 years. Schools were integrated then and I attended schools there. I will never forget third or fourth grade where my best friend was a black girl and we were inseparable. Her name was Minnie and we were glued together. I asked her to come home with me one day and when we reached our apartment my father said she would have to leave as we were going out. After she left my father took me to the bedroom and spanked me really hard. So I learned early on what bigotry and racism looked like, and it wasn't pretty. But I learned also that bigotry and racism were anathema to me and I have never again treated others as unequal. My parents were divorced a few years later and it didn't bother me.