A high-school classmate recently posted a pic of his old basketball team. I only recognized 3 folks but was totally confused because there was a Black player. My town had no Black people. It had to be college. And it was; it's a college basketball team with only one Black player.
The diversity in my town was all down to our teachers who were not Norwegian or Swedish but were instead French, Spanish, German, or Greek. And of course, a few folks who were Ojibwe.
I like to think that even if I stayed I would have been anti-racist. My Mom and Dad were, but you know, they talked about recalling my dad when he refused to authorize "calling up the militia" during a tense time when this guy stole from his grandparents & lied and blamed Ojibwe
He was a township supervisor (unpaid position) and folks were really mad, though less so when they found out that the accusations were all a lie by a drug-addicted young mad stealing from grandparents
But who knows, how do you wake up to systemic racism in a town where the ethnic differences are whether you make fattigmand (Norway) or krumkake (Sweden) for Christmas.
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