I am 8 years older than him.
He just admitted to wearing blackface and doing sketchy racial bullshit as a youth.
WTH?
I don't know anyone who did that crap. Nobody in my high school ever did. I always feel like such a weirdo when this racial crap comes up - was I raised on the freaking Moon?? Larry would talk about race riots at his Laurel, MD school and how there was some sign in his town that said, "Ni**er, be out of town before sundown." I never even heard of things like that. I have never called some black person a N-word in my life - who freaking talks like that? As far as I'm aware, calling people racial slurs has been wrong my whole entire life. Sure, you had a few redneck/ghetto shitbags who didn't know how to act, but reasonably raised people just didn't do that.
I have a vague memory of race riots on the news and civil rights marches, but that was like a movie or something to me because there was nothing like that going on in my city. Hell, I had black kids in my kindergarten class. I have never experienced segregation in my life. I've seen racism and bigotry, but it was much later in life and so aberrant that I was stunned.
So how old are you, where did you grow up, and was there a lot of racial what have you when you were a kid? Am I the only freaking weirdo who didn't have this as part of their life? Is my hometown of Lincoln, NE some bizarre otherworld??
He just admitted to wearing blackface and doing sketchy racial bullshit as a youth.
WTH?
I don't know anyone who did that crap. Nobody in my high school ever did. I always feel like such a weirdo when this racial crap comes up - was I raised on the freaking Moon?? Larry would talk about race riots at his Laurel, MD school and how there was some sign in his town that said, "Ni**er, be out of town before sundown." I never even heard of things like that. I have never called some black person a N-word in my life - who freaking talks like that? As far as I'm aware, calling people racial slurs has been wrong my whole entire life. Sure, you had a few redneck/ghetto shitbags who didn't know how to act, but reasonably raised people just didn't do that.
I have a vague memory of race riots on the news and civil rights marches, but that was like a movie or something to me because there was nothing like that going on in my city. Hell, I had black kids in my kindergarten class. I have never experienced segregation in my life. I've seen racism and bigotry, but it was much later in life and so aberrant that I was stunned.
So how old are you, where did you grow up, and was there a lot of racial what have you when you were a kid? Am I the only freaking weirdo who didn't have this as part of their life? Is my hometown of Lincoln, NE some bizarre otherworld??