Peachy
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Dr Peat talking about how precarious race is when he was mistaken for a non-white. Ray sees race bias as cultural, based on experience, rather than biological.
I agree! The neighborhood where I grew up was about 50% white, 40% black, 10% Hispanic or Asian. (I’m white.) We formed friendships based on interests and personality. Totally mixed race groups. I guess I was fortunate that way! I had a lot of black teachers - actually three teachers who influenced me the most were black. I had a mega crush on a black boy in 3rd grade.
There were bad kids who were white and bad kids who were black. I was wary of people if they had a glint in their eye not a certain skin color. Incidents I can recall were mostly white kids causing trouble. A girl bullying us on the playground by lining us up and slamming a soccer ball on our heads (lol), a couple boys stealing bikes off the porch. Maybe people tended to cause trouble within their own race group?
I still had some racist ideas about certain people groups as I got older. Ones with whom I wasn’t familiar. But thankfully talking to them and learning from them works every time. Food is a good topic. Something about food just connects people.
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