tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730801.post7540224842971345225..comments2023-12-31T17:47:27.217-08:00Comments on Taj MuttHall Dog Diary: Freedom to LiveElfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01827436807468320435noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730801.post-45266558465399997612020-06-21T15:43:45.757-07:002020-06-21T15:43:45.757-07:00The class photo you see represents maybe 2 years o...The class photo you see represents maybe 2 years of my life. What I remember before that: A couple of years in a rural area where my dad taught math & science at the high school; only people I remember were the white family upstairs with a boy my age and the doctor who lived in the next house over (seemed like a long way away to a 2-to-3 year old) whose daughter Suzanne Lazar was my best friend; they were Polish is all I remember (and white).<br />Next my parents managed a lodge owned by the Adirondak Mountain Club, which was pretty elite, and in fact we left when my parents got into it with the owners about a young black man that they hired... that's a different story.<br />Even the 2 black gals my age at the high school were only peripherally aware of each other, if at all. What we did have was a growing population of Chicano students (as they called themselves), none of whom I ever recall being in a class I was in, and a few kids of Asian descent who were born or at least raised here so there were no foreign accents; they were in my classes and some among my friends.<br /><br />So, still, pretty white.<br /><br />Sounds like your grandma had a good long life. That's pretty cool. Elfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01827436807468320435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730801.post-10322025431787704782020-06-21T07:09:30.186-07:002020-06-21T07:09:30.186-07:00And here's where our childhoods, so similar in...And here's where our childhoods, so similar in so many ways, is different. I grew up in totally white communities. I never knew, or even saw, anyone different than our family growing up until I got to college. But you and I have had similar thoughts, though you express them far more eloquently...that the Civil War WASN'T that far back in history. I thought that a lot during the race riots in Detroit in the 60s, that it had only been a hundred years, and my grandma at the time was nearing 100, so almost IN HER LIFETIME! I still think that way though it's been 60 more years. Dawnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00824027366993286152noreply@blogger.com