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when i was beginning my middle school years my family's residence was such that we were situated just across the school district line from my friends. i heard story after frightening story about the mostly black school i was scheduled to attend. i was so worried i made my mom lie about my address and drive me to a bus stop near my dad's work that shuttled me to the 'white' school.
my plan went well except i forgot to memorize the falsified address and when the teacher passed around a card for us to write down our info i got so nervous i wrote a probably very strange address. i was called to the dean's office where they asked me plainly .. 'what is your address?'. my bottom lip started to shake and i just broke down in tears.
i had been in the middle of a math test but they went ahead and shipped me off to the other school that very day.
i thought i'd be locked up in a locker by crazy rednecks. intimidated by blacks, etc etc. but what i actually found was that these people knew how to have a good time. they didn't look me up and down to determine how much my parents had spent on my clothes .. they had no concern for that kind of status whatsoever and i was able to just be myself. which, at that age was a tremendous gift.
when i see black people, who have been subjected to being treated as sub-humans rejoicing for obama's win it makes me cry from a very deep place in my heart.
- Helluva story, salisae. :)
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- Helluva story, salisae. :)