Let's hear it for multiculturalism
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Reading Wicked Blue's post about Jennifer Welch and her great take on MAGA hypocrisy, I can only say 
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I am finally realizing that I was afforded the richest multi-cultural experience growing up that one could ask for. On the one hand it has made me a more rounded, interested, and curious person and on the other hand has kept me blind to the fact that most people grow up in a mono-culture bubble that has stunted their view of the world. They are afraid of anything else.
Though not Jewish myself, most of my neighbors growing up were Jewish. The parents then were not the helicopters parents of today because they were busy. The kind and nurturing presence were the grandmas who loved all the children. Some of the grandmas had numbers on their arms from the concentration camps. All the kids knew about the holocaust and would never be one of those who said it did not happen.
Some Japanese classmates came from families that had been sent to internment camps. We all knew that one family at one time had the premier florist business in downtown Seattle. It was sold pennies on the dollar when the family was removed to the camps. Upon return, the father committed suicide from the shame of it. His two sons eventually did the same. We knew our government did that.
I saw that Asian students got the best grades. I saw that they worked harder and did not goof off like the other students, myself included. They were serious about their studies.
The black students were treated more harshly by the administration. They were more likely than the white kids to be suspended or sent home for the day for something as trivial as wearing a skirt that was too short. The girls had to kneel on a chair and if the skirt did not touch the seat of the chair they had to go home. They fought back and got their own student union to address the administration and they drew the attention of the Black Panthers. Some joined.
Of our high school class, we had three major success stories. One became a famous musician (Jewish), one became an influential federal government official (black), and one became a governor (of Chinese descent). They worked harder than the rest of us to reach goals they had set for themselves.
DEI and woke references now are the language of ignorance, fear, and hate. Cruelty is the weapon. It is sad we have to face resistance to right the wrongs now but I am grateful to have been a part of history that tried. Thank you for indulging me. Racists have no idea what they are missing in their lives.
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