John Biewen — The Long View, I: On Being White
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Isn't That Kind of Cool?
i've found this to be a time of kind of rememberingn what i think of as barrassing stories from my childhood. I mean, the town that i grew up in, mankato, minnesota was probably ninety nine plus per cent white. And so there would be one family of black kids in the school that i went to for years, for example. And then i remember a time when aa another child, i can't remember the circumstances, but there was a boy my age who came to our school. And i remember distinctly participating in that thing that now, you know, i've heard about a thousand times from black people as tsas. Almost fifty years later,...
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