My parents knew it sucked too, but as artists with day jobs they pretty much had to go where the work was. We occasionally lived as hungry children of starving artists, but it wasn't too frequent.
My middle and high school experience was Lord of the Flies, not because I wasn't white, I am, but because I was a weird autistic spectrum kid of indeterminate sexuality the bullies called "queerbait." Getting beaten bloody was a regular experience for me.
I quit high school in the mid 'seventies and fled.
My siblings fled.
My parents fled soon after my dad retired.
Never looked back. As an adult I've escaped life in majority white communities.
My wife and I explicitly chose not to raise our own children in affluent white U.S.A..
I know many good people who grew up in affluent white U.S.A. who had begun to recognized the intrinsic racism of their own community even as protected children, but Northam isn't one of them.
Northam had every opportunity to make this right, but he's fucked it up in a most spectacular way.
He needs to go.
And btw, your posts would be easier to read if you hit "enter" twice at the end of every paragraph.
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