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13497608, This. I grew up around mostly black people, and that shaped my outlook
Posted by flipnile, Mon Jan-22-24 09:48 AM
>...he grew up in a very black
>world and didn't encounter much blatant racism. I kinda grew
>up like that and really didn't inherent ideas that black
>people were supposed to be inferior or thought of as less
>than.
Since nearly everyone was black, race wasn't a big factor in how I perceived myself. I was free to be whatever I wanted without race being attached to it. The high-achieving smart kids in my school weren't smart for black kids," they were just smart.
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