Racisim comes from the ADULTS!
I'm a little kid playing in the yard in 1947 .... yes ... 1947.
We lived in a house near Briggs Stadium in Detroit.
I'm playing with another kid who just moved in. We were friends and played well. A ikid is a kid!
What I didn't know was ... he was part of the first black family to move into the neighborhood! My parents were not racist and thought nothing of it. I remember the neighbors having a fit about it. As a little kid, I thought the adults were acting very strange.
I continued to play with children of color and later, to work and serve with men and women of color. People are people. Economics and education is the real difference maker.
I'm a little kid playing in the yard in 1947 .... yes ... 1947.
We lived in a house near Briggs Stadium in Detroit.
I'm playing with another kid who just moved in. We were friends and played well. A ikid is a kid!
What I didn't know was ... he was part of the first black family to move into the neighborhood! My parents were not racist and thought nothing of it. I remember the neighbors having a fit about it. As a little kid, I thought the adults were acting very strange.
I continued to play with children of color and later, to work and serve with men and women of color. People are people. Economics and education is the real difference maker.