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Dangerman4/12/2019 9:39:04 am PDT

re: #156 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

one thing that prevented me from growing up that way was watching my neighborhood in Gary, Indiana, go from all-white to mixed to white minority in a matter of a few months.

My mom mom was a widow who could not afford to join the White Flight to the suburbs. Some of those black and Latino kids became my best buddies and playmates.

ditto more or less
there were no black kids in my elementary school 63-69. there was one chinese american.
i was friends with every black kid in middle school (one was my ‘best friend’)
there were 7. i knew all their sibs and families

i didnt ‘learn’ they were ‘black’ until junior year of high school