Some thoughts of 77 yr old white male from the south

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21. I'm a WASP male over 60...

My grandparents lived in Washington D.C. in the 1950s and '60s. They're whole neighborhood in N.W. D,C. changed color due to "white flight" in the early 1950s. My grandparents stayed put. The neighbors (all black by this time) took good care of my grandparents and were always friendly and warm people. When the riots were taking place in the 1960s there was no trouble for my grandparents and the neighbors always reassured them that they were OK. When my parents and I came for visits I ran amok all over the neighborhood with black children and never thought anything about it. My parents, or no one else, told me about racism and to this day I do not understand it. As I got older I began to become aware of "Jim Crow" in Washington and Penn. I could not understand it and I still don't. People are just people and skin is skin, it's what's on the inside that counts.