Some thoughts of 77 yr old white male from the south

[southernyankeebelle]

48. Thank you for sharing your comment with us. I also grew up on military bases as a young

child. My mother was from Italy and she wasn't use to being around people of color. My dad and mom both raised us not to hate anyone. We played and had sleep overs. My black girlfriends came over and spent the night along with other white girlfriends. We didn't think like that. When my mother went into the hospital to have our last sister my black girlfriend's mother took care of us. We had the same amount of kids in our families. Our dad's were the same rank and our mothers did things together. One her mother went into the hospital to have her baby my mother took care of their kids. I didn't notice racism until we were going back to PA and we stopped in Mississippi to visit my parents friends. I saw a bunch of young black children sitting in a pickup truck. Their dad was getting gas. I told daddy I was thirty and at that time they had water fountains outside. I went over and noticed that there were two fountains. One of them said for "colored only". I looked at my daddy and asked him what that meant. He said don't worry about it and told me to drink and lets move. That was the first time I ever encountered racisits. But I still have a variety of friends and I won't change. If a white friend came over and say a black friend at our house and said something well I would tell them not to come back.