re: #357 Decatur Deb

I was totally clueless. I was not raised to think in racial terms. As a youngin’ , I was playing with another kid in my apt. building and suggested we go play with another friend of mine, because he had all these cool Star Wars action figures and stuff.

The neighbor kid asks “Is he colored”?

In my mind I’m thinking “Well, he ain’t invisible, so he must be ‘colored’”, so I say yes.

He says “I’m not allowed to play with colored kids”.

I was flummoxed. I had no clue what that was supposed to mean.