TheBanyanTree: LITTLE MOUSE~

[NancyIee at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/28/2010 9:50:55 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
pingleto at gmail.com writes:


>> Mommy, why did Robbie
>> call me  a
>> nigger?
>
>> Oh, I don't know, son.
>>  Maybe he was angry
>> at you--
>



Discrimination is a horrible thing to have to explain to a  child.  Your 
write touches on a hurtful subject that, unfortunately, is  still a dark part 
of our culture.  I live in the rural south, and while my  neighbors are good 
family people, and hard workers (when they can find work)  they still 
harbor the old time feelings toward other races.
 
The circus people live out in this rural area (after being driven out of  
Sarasota by ordinances), and the locals regard them as foreigners, even after 
 generations of the circus folk being known and often famous performers. 
The  migrant workers are accused to "stealing Americans' jobs" when no white 
man will  work that hard for so little. Discrimination is well and alive in 
the rural  south.  Still, on the other hand, they greatly admire my roommate 
who is a  pastor of a local church, for her work among the migrant peoples. 
So, perhaps  there is hope.
 
I certainly hope so. I am a retired teacher of intellectually challenged  
children, and let me tell you about discrimination . . . . .
 
NancyLee