Christine Bollerud
Mean Black Girls
Being One“In this army,” my drill sergeant father told his troops, “there is no white, black, brown, or yellow—there is only green.” At home, there was no black, brown, yellow or green allowed period. The green was thrown in there lest one of my older sisters decided she wanted to date a GI. My father always proudly told the story how my grandfather knew JFK personally but didn’t vote for him because he was a “pope- loving Catholic.”Christine Bollerud5 min read