I mainly grew up in Saratoga which is a fairly diverse community and as a kid I honestly didn't know about prejudice. I went to school with all kinds of kids, poor kids, kids from wealthy families, black kids, kids who heard different languages at home and had parents from different countries. But nobody ever said anything, not my parents, not my teachers. My Sunday School teacher was black, a nice lady who was quite friendly with my mother because her little boy was in my mother's class, so it just never dawned on me. I figured everybody was different. My grandmother was Polish and spoke the language at home, my best friend's mother came from Japan, I just accepted that everybody had something... 
So I was quite shocked when I learned that people were judged by skin color. From my perspective, everyone's skin color was different, I didn't realize that there were categories. 
Recently I learned that the daughter of a friend from work - who is black - was called racist names when she was walking in South Glens Falls, the town where she's lived all her life. It just doesn't make sense, but it's definitely out there. I know now that it's always been there, but I blame the current administration and their attempts to divide us by skin color, country of origin or religion for giving these bigots license. 
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