the other mike
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For anyone who doesn't know me I'm a 60 year old white man from up north living in the south since around 1983.....( the year Scarface came out..... for some reason that's been a reference point for me). 22 years of long cold winters got old for me, is probably the main reason I stayed down here.
On a side note ,another one of my historic reference points was 1970 in South Carolina. On a family vacation driving from Ohio to Florida, we stopped off on the highway in some small town in South Carolina and I remember distinctly seeng the water fountain with a whites-only sign above it. ... I grew up in a more or less segregated town in Northern Ohio but it's the first time I had seen anything like that first hand.
Fast forward to yesterday. On the way to a friend's house I drove past a young black boy, 4 or 5 years old I'm guessing, sitting on the curb between two cars holding a basketball and I rolled the window down, smiled and waved to him, and I'll never forget the way he smiled and waved back to me..
It was like he trusted me and we really had a connection going on and I don't think it's like he just sits there waving at everyone and I know better than to go around waving at little kids but this was different It actually brought tears to my eyes.
It's one of those surreal moments in time that you never forget. It's almost like a ghost apparition in my head now best razors that sounds but is still reminding me that there is some hope in the world.....
If there's a moral or lesson to this story I guess it's.... we can end racism one little smile at a time..... communicate with each other stop letting our so-called leaders divide us the way they are.
On a side note ,another one of my historic reference points was 1970 in South Carolina. On a family vacation driving from Ohio to Florida, we stopped off on the highway in some small town in South Carolina and I remember distinctly seeng the water fountain with a whites-only sign above it. ... I grew up in a more or less segregated town in Northern Ohio but it's the first time I had seen anything like that first hand.
Fast forward to yesterday. On the way to a friend's house I drove past a young black boy, 4 or 5 years old I'm guessing, sitting on the curb between two cars holding a basketball and I rolled the window down, smiled and waved to him, and I'll never forget the way he smiled and waved back to me..
It was like he trusted me and we really had a connection going on and I don't think it's like he just sits there waving at everyone and I know better than to go around waving at little kids but this was different It actually brought tears to my eyes.
It's one of those surreal moments in time that you never forget. It's almost like a ghost apparition in my head now best razors that sounds but is still reminding me that there is some hope in the world.....
If there's a moral or lesson to this story I guess it's.... we can end racism one little smile at a time..... communicate with each other stop letting our so-called leaders divide us the way they are.
