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65. As a female white boomer, my experience growing up in the south was very

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different. Never realized it until I grew up. In our small town Blacks and whites shopped at the same grocery where my white grandmother worked as a cashier. She knew every Black family in town. We made regular trips to their homes to deliver food or clothing if they needed it. And God help anyone who used the "n" word around my mother or grandmother.

Don't get me wrong, there was segregation. Once, when I was very young, I asked my mom why one of the store's water fountains was marked "colored" when it wasn't a color at all -- it was white just like the other fountain. My mother replied, "Because some people are just ignorant."

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