Then there was an ah ha moment to be talked about
And what Im saying as a specific difference is that there was never an ah ha or oh that what that is moment for me
When I was 8 and the teacher had all of the 10 non Black kids in the grades be rats in the nut cracker play and I said to her I wasn't going to be a rat specifically because thats what she assigned to only the brown kids, nobody talked to me about that I knew
There was never a talk in my house about how I was going to be treated differently. There was immersion.
The friends, community, and team mates I was around never left East Austin
Youth and rec leagues were full on segregated
It wasnt until AAU tournaments became more prominent down here in the early 90s that folks from the community would get a chance to compete against other groups.
Hell we weren’t even pop warner football until like 95.