All Posts Tagged With: "UMKC"
A Personal Experience with Prejudice
The winter of 1963-64 was a rough one. I was in the eighth grade. John F. Kennedy had just been assassinated. My school was becoming integrated (the authorities sent one African American boy to our school and called it good enough). It was code (sic) outside. And my teachers did not like me. (At least, […]
20Mar2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 1 comment | Continued
A Personal Understanding of Racism
Son, I grew up in a segregated America. My parents would have qualified as third generation hillbillies who came to town to work. We lived in a mixed race neighborhood in an inner city. Those were days when a fist fight on the corner was just that – no one pulled out a knife or […]
5Jan2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 1 comment | Continued
People of Color – urbanites?
Son, Do you like the title of this post? Both terms are often used, erroneously, to describe a part of the American population. Bill O’Reilly uses the term ‘people of color.’ Urbanite has become a code word for a particular culture – implying color and crime. Your nephew lives in very rural northwest Missouri. He […]
9Oct2007 | Ohg Rea Tone | 1 comment | Continued