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In reply to the discussion: Here's a list of people Tara Reade has accused of assault or harassment. [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Their problem has nothing to do with race, you were just a convenient mark.
My county didn't integrate schools until seven years after the Civil Rights Act was passed. It was part of the southern resistance to integration. I remember two White kids show up to my school to attend, I was used to seeing White kids on school buses as they were driven past my school to the schools across town. But those two kids, their parents maybe saw what was right. Some of the really insecure Black kids picked on the White kids, a boy and a girl, but they kept showing up to school each day, two years before I would see other White kids in class. Some of the Black kids became friends with the kids, so the boy and the girl had people to sit beside and hang out with at recess. When we got to high school, me and those two kids ended up in seperate high school, which to me today says their parents could have easily sent them to White only schools, given that they lived on the side of town nearer to where those schools were.
Long story short, being an asshole is colorblind, the people that picked on you are garden variety assholes. I think that you would have found that there were a lot of good people around there.