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In reply to the discussion: I stopped liking Bill Cosby 25 years ago. Here's the story. [View all]deurbano
(2,894 posts)I am also mostly descended from pasty white Europeans (although in my family's case, perhaps a little more emotional repression was in order). I had attended almost entirely white elementary schools and an almost entirely white junior high, so high school finally broadened my horizons. In my Humanities class, junior year, some of my African American classmates performed a dancing/marching routine that culminated in: "I'm back and I'm proud! (With clenched fists held high.) Cool times.
And yeah, white people (like me!) became more colorful then, too. (Like my path from "sosh" to hippie.)
In 1983, I saw James Brown at the Venetian Room in San Francisco (where I live, now). He really was "the Hardest Working Man in Show Business"! What a show!