Listening to the 1A on npr, Kathleen Belew is saying...

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4. There is so much we were never taught but had to learn on our own.

I'm in my late 70s, my best friend is in her 80s. She's a wonderful person who, although a Republican, lives her Christian faith and would not hurt anyone. She voted for Biden in '20 because of TFG's incompetence on Covid, but we usually don't talk politics, because we don't want to fight. But she was flabbergasted when in discussing building generational wealth (when discussing holding onto her house for her kids) I told her that black people were shut out of most of the post WWII boom because black veterans did not have the same access to the educational and housing benefits, etc. that white veterans had. She said many times "I never heard that, are you sure?" Her brothers had attended college on the GI bill. I tried to tell her that that is one of the things that people refer to when they refer to institutional racism. It's built into the way things work. That feeling that things were fair was an illusion.