Being Black and hearing republicans laughing it up at watermelon jokes at my expense

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22. I understand your thinking

And yes, I think the permission structure was integral to this moment. Like you I grew up in a household where some racial epithet were common place. Others were forbidden, tho... a thought or word too far. As much as we do understand the Depression era that shaped our parents and grandparents, I don't think you're completely correct about our generation.

From the 1960s on, we always had a group of cohorts who didn't think like us... who were taught from an early age greed was good. They carried on the racist drug wars and condemned the hippies. At best it was even an uneasy alliance between our own groups... and then you had these kids who were learning their parents lessons from the past.

We were learning to get along, they were learning how to divide. I worry we'll always have that division with us, and wonder how we get past it to progress in the way so many of us want, even still.