Well, howdy there internet people. If you’ve been following me here for awhile, you may know I love the YouTube videos of Beau of the Fifth Column, and I occasionally repost some of them here. This is one that deeply resonates within me.
I’m a white man, born and raised in the southern US in the 1950s. I’m a rare bird who has understood my white male privilege since I was a kid. Black people were not allowed to live in my town back then, and they were not allowed to attend our school until about 1966, I think. I was always the smartest kid in my class, but if my skin had been black, I would have grown up nearly illiterate here.
James Patterson is a 75-year-old white US man who has been Continue reading