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Re: A personal story? Dave, here is a story I experienced personally.. I live in California and met a black gentleman in a gathering, a few years back. He was likely in his mid to late forties, well educated, a professor in a local university. During our conversation he told me that he was originally from Mississippi. I asked him, "- What brought you here?" He took a second and a deep breath and continued, "- I was a teenager. I came to visit my aunt in my last year of high school and stayed." - Wow! You must have really liked California... I know, it is a really beautiful state. I wouldn't want to live any where else too... I said. He goes, "- No! That wasn't it." -What was it? I asked. - When my aunt introduced me to my neighbors next morning, both of them gave me a hug, welcoming me. They were white. Forget a handshake.... That was the first time in my life a white person hugged me. At that moment, I knew this was the place I wanted to live. At that night I begged my aunt not to send me back to Mississippi and allow me to finish my last year of high school here.. And she did. I am grateful to her. After my college, I brought rest of my family to California.... And, I am happy the way everything worked out. I was choked a bit, did not know what to say. At the end of the day, when we were leaving, I gave him a big hug. The moral of the story is that, unless you can put yourself in the shoes of that person, feel what they feel and tread them the way you would like to be treated, we are not as civilized society as we think. |
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