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What Are The Racial Attitudes In My Family

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The racial attitudes in my family was that you should never trust white people. They prepared me to believe, what goes on in our house stays in our house. So growing up, I saw whites as the enemy. I was raised in the projects downtown Norfolk, where there were no whites. If whites were in the neighborhood, it was for something negative like, (social worker) taking children out of the home, ambulance for people over dosing, police taking someone away because of a crime. First time I became aware of racially diverse people, was when I was six years old.I was being bused to an all-white elementary school called Ocean Air Elementary. During this long ride, I remember it just like it was yesterday, the smell of the bus smelling like new rubber,

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