Maryann Palmer
Aug 27, 2017 · 1 min read

I’m a “damn Yankee” living in the South. When I was in high school (in the 1960's), I read “Black Like Me,” and was appalled to think that racism wasn’t dead. How was that possible? I wondered. I had no idea, because I lived in a VERY small town at least 20 years behind everywhere else, had a best friend who was mixed race, and nobody in my world had anything derogatory to say about it. It was just normal. Your friends could be whoever you said they were. How CAN it be that we live in a country where “all men are created equal” and still find that race is an issue???

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