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In reply to the discussion: White DUers: Tell Your Stories [View all]wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)his concert. I went with a black female co worker. I was the only white person in the arena as far as we could see.
During the concert James Brown gave away bicycles to kids in the audience. They took the spotlight and shown it around the crowd and if it stopped on a kid that kid got a bike. Well it stopped on me and James Brown said, "we even have white folks in the audience." Now I don't think it was discrimination but I was singled out. But being it was by James Brown I didn't mind.
In the sixties my high school friends and I went to Columbus Georgia to help with voter registration. We were working with students from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.
My friends wanted to go to Catholic Mass and we went to the closest church near where we were staying. Beside the priest we were the only white folks in the church. After mass some girls came up to us and invited us to coffee and donuts in the church basement. They told us to wait and later they said the coffee and donuts were cancelled that day. I think it was because of us. We did get donuts at the girls' grandmother's house and had a nice time.