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Brewman_Jax

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Tue Jan-20-09 02:29 PM
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26. Not all hate screams for attention

One the vivid memories for me was after moving in our new house, going to elementary school and starting high school, and playing soccer, was seeing all the white kids move away. It happened over a 3-4 year interval. The spoken reasons were many and varied, but the unspoken ones were the same: we don't want to live around black people. I would hear later about real estate agents calling the area and "warning" people that black people were moving in and this would drive down property values, etc. None of the white kids that started high school with me would graduate with me. :(

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