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Art_from_Ark

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38. I rode my bicycle through Jasper, Texas one year

Reply to Manifestor_of_Light (Reply #36)

Fri Feb 14, 2014, 02:02 AM

Feb 2014

1979, to be precise. I was not bothered while I rode through the town. But with the recent racial incidents there, I wonder if things might have been different had I been black. And it's kind of scary to think I might not have even made it that far, because when I was in a small mom-and-pop grocery near Chicot State Park, Louisiana, a couple of guys in the next aisle were discussing the next Klan meeting

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