Explore "How to Heal Our Racial Divide" by Derwin Gray on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
We are born into conflicts that we did not create. These disputes existed long before we arrived on Planet Earth. But we still have to live with their aftermath.
I remember going to a restaurant with my mom when I was about eight years old. As soon as we sat down, a disheveled White man started spewing hate-filled words at the Black people present. He screamed, "I remember a day when n-s were not allowed to eat at restaurants with us good White folk! " A Black man stood up to deal with the situation, but his wife stopped him, saying, "Baby, he's not worth it. " My little-boy brain was confused, and my heart was afraid. Sadly, my mother grew up in a time when Black people could not eat at restaurants with White people. She remembers drinking from "colored-only" water fountains.