A White man's awakening

[Dan]

5. Unfortunately, this is "somewhat" true for Blacks.

I was raised by my Grandmother who was born in 1891. My Grandmother’s mother apparently lived with my Grandmother and helped her raise her children that were born between 1911-1930s. Great-Grandmother had been a slave (there are stories there) and there were stories that my Grandmother and my aunts/uncles would share about America. Some of the stories were in the forms of jokes/humor/tales of America that imparted a lesson. But one thing is particular you learned was that their stories were our history that had not been told in history books.

Since we also attended Segregated Schools - the history was reinforced by our Teachers. One day a month when the teachers were paid, they would spend the last half of that school day - talking about white people. What they said versus what they did, and what was in like in the past that white people didn’t talk about what they did.

As I’ve said a few times before in the past, my older brothers and sisters knew nothing of our antidotal history because they were raised in the North and their history was different than mine. There was both good and bad from being raised in the environment that I was, but looking back - I would not change things one bit.

Interesting times.