Probably a little innocence as well

But i had no experience with that kind of open relaxed racism to that point. I grew up in neighborhood that was majority black with white and indian families sprinkled in, and spent k-12 in a environment that was fairly liberal even for catholic school.

I also kind of assumed that a place like Tech would be above that sort of thing. I assumed people smart enough for that would be too intelligent to be racist.

That illusion was gone before my first day of class.