leaving Texas
What does it take to differentiate yourself from the people all around you? Find out by reading Lyn Miller-Lachmann‘s Writers Against Racism response:
The civil rights movement frightened and angered most of the older white people I knew because it meant that their good life based on the subjugation of others might come to an end. But most of the older African-American people I knew could tell me of a relative, friend, or acquaintance who had been killed by a white person. By the age of ten, I began to get a sense of what it meant to be powerless and vulnerable at any time to arbitrary acts of exclusion and violence.
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