Reply #56: When I was a kid [View All]

[QueenOfCalifornia]

my hateful mother was gleeful when King was killed.

She worked on George Wallace's campaign.

She was the president of The local John Birch Society chapter.

She applauded when The American Nazi Party tried to scare the blacks from moving into our neighborhood by picketing in a march in front of our house.

I know first hand how ugly racism is.

She hated the Kennedy's because they were aligned with people such as ML King.

I heard it all from the time I was born.

I saw it on the streets of The South in Louisiana and Mississippi. It was very real. Signs in the windows of diners "White Only" and separate drinking fountains. I saw black men cross the street to avoid us white folks - they always looked down.

My parents were Mormons so don't tell me that the LDS faith is not steeped in racism

I am embarrassed by all of the above. Holy shit - I am deeply sorry for all of the above.

I turned around in my late 20's after traveling all over the planet and seeing for myself what people are really like. I had to relearn humanity from the ground up.

I had my children in my 40's and they have been spared this shit. My mother died when I was 14. It is all dead with her now.