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If you’re a white person, and you’re talking to people of color about a prominent person of their same race or ethnic origin, you can’t ever be too respectful… Not “MLK” but “Dr. King”
Have you seen the video of these two Scottish guys who try to get a voice-activated lift (elevator) to understand what they’re saying? What if they were black? … So These Two Scottish Guys get onto a Lift…
Kyle Got Me on a Roller Coaster
Way back when when Kyle and I were just friends, he found out I’d never been on a roller coaster. So he made it his mission to get me on one. We went to Six Flags Over Georgia, and I was scared. Especially of the Mind Bender…
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Where Does My Black Friend Dominica Go To Church?
I have a black friend, Dominica, who’s a member of a church. What kind of church do you think she goes to? If you guessed Southern Baptist or African Methodist Episcopal…
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A Little Mixed-Race Girl at the Swimming Pool
One particular time when I was swimming at the Meredith Mathews YMCA, I saw a white man with a toddler who I figured was his daughter. He was trying to coax his daughter into the pool with him, but she just looked at the water solemnly…
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My Black Friend wants to go Camping with Me
Black people famously – stereotypically – don’t like to go camping. But I impressed my friend Dominica with my improvisational fire-building skills, and she said, she actually said, that she wants to go camping with me…
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You Don’t have to Take On the Wrongs of your Race
Back in 2011, I saw a documentary called “The Longoria Affair,” about how a woman named Beatrice Longoria wanted to hold a wake for her husband, a soldier who’d been killed in World War II, but the owner of the only chapel in her small Texas town said she couldn’t use the chapel, because “the whites won’t like it…”
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I Wish I had a Really Big Garden
Do you have a garden? I read all these memoirs about people feeding themselves from their backyard vegetable garden, or raising chickens for their eggs and rabbits to slaughter and eat. And I really want to have a garden like that. But would it be too much work?
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Enticing my Black Husband to go Camping Again
How did I get Kyle to go camping with me a third time? By telling him that I wanted to go, and if it turned out to be good weather that particular weekend, I hoped he’d go too. And then just sort of assuming that he’d be going. Especially since the weather turned out to be really nice. And making him as comfortable as possible…
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An Interracial Couple Plays Scrabble at the Campsite
We went camping last weekend, and while playing Scrabble we discovered that it recognizes “bigly”…
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The First Time Kyle Visited Me
See that smiling, skinny, impish young man in the photo? That’s Kyle, the first time he came to visit me,,,
read moreMeeting Kyle’s Parents — Actually Going to Church
Sunday morning, I was sitting at the kitchen table eating breakfast, as Mr. and Mrs. Jones were getting ready to go to Sunday School. Mr. Jones started talking about this new suit that a friend of his had gotten, how nice it was, how well it fit, how sharp it looked, and as he’s saying all this I’m wondering what the heck is this about?…
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