Apartheid and me:

[hedgehog]

Back when Apartheid was going through it's death throes, I lived in a small city in a rural county outside Columbus, Ohio. Ironically, considering that General Sherman was born there, at that time I think the area was completely white. We used to watch the news every night on a B&W TV. We used to try to explain the news to our four year old son. When my young son finally saw a black person in real life, he assumed that that person was from South Africa. We had to explain then that most African Americans had been here far longer than our family, that we were the newcomers!

I revisited the area recently. It has become a bedroom community for Columbus, and the influx of newcomers has brought a more representative population mix!