Don Gwinn
Don Gwinn
Aug 23, 2017 · 1 min read

I grew up in a sundown town, a “close-knit rural community” where I never saw black people without traveling to the larger city where my parents worked. This passage describes my entire understanding of black Americans until I was old enough to start meeting more people outside that small, segregated enclave. It was not that we never talked about race at all, but that when we did, we all thought we knew what we were talking about. My friends and I agreed that racism was bad and we would never do anything racist, but we didn’t ask many questions, because we thought it had all been figured out before our time.

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