After my dad retired, I made friends with an old acquaintance. His dad was FILTHY rich. They OWNED a savings and loan. We spent a lot of time playing in our early teens. We came from diverse worlds.
We befriended a couple of black kids, in 1964 NC, as they were integrating the schools. I had always gone to school with different folk.
These new friends were a lawyer's kid, a doctor's kid, and a millwright's son. They were good people. It was bad at first, but people quickly caught on, that there are different colored folk, that are just different colored folk!!!
I admit a certain bigotry, when I see the thugs on TV. What disturbs me most, is that seemingly intelligent kids want to emulate them!
