Introduction

When I was a little kid growing up in Mankato, Minnesota, we played cowboys and Indians. Back then we're talking around 1970, my parents hadn't had their consciousness raised about that sort of cultural appropriation. For the cowboys we had guns with suction cup darts, and we ran around the yard shooting at each other. We played civil war and of course nobody was a Yankee. All the Yankees were imaginary. And then I thought of the world somewhat as up north and here. You may have heard him in a couple of our recent episodes. Tim Tyson is another white guy, roughly my age.