Will white folks PLEASE STOP whitesplaining the experience of being black in America to black people

[Hoyt]

4. Other than seeing on TV a man who later became Georgia's Governor chase Black people out

of his restaurant with a gun and pick handle, hearing some candidate for Governor who spitted out the words "N_____s and J__s," and being startled at the book and movie Black Like Me, I did not have much direct experience with discrimination/hatred in my early teens. But with those experiences, I sure understood something wasn't right.

As shocking as those were, they were nowhere near the stories of the victims of that time I heard later. Even in 2017 similar crud could hardly be called isolated.

I did luck up in my first year of college to have a Sociology prof come in one Saturday morning with his head bandaged up from being hit with a police baton at a local demonstration on Civil Rights. He walked in, said put away your books, because we are going to talk about what is going on for the rest of the quarter. I was very lucky, a lot of the Southern kids I grew up with weren't so lucky or didn't care.

My 50th year reunion is coming up in a few weeks. I'm not going, because I've had enough disagreements on Facebook, etc., with some of those A-holes that I know I will punch someone.

Great post OneC.