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<blockquote data-quote="Cedar Creek" data-source="post: 2721057" data-attributes="member: 12387"><p>I grew up in SE Oklahoma AKA &quot;Little Dixie&quot;. My family, like most in the region, descended from origins in Alabama, Georgia, South &amp; North Carolina, and had strong feelings of racial superiority regarding people of color. My mother&#039;s family especially. I really didn&#039;t know my dad&#039;s family, but he didn&#039;t use the &quot;N&quot; and didn&#039;t approve of his kids talking that way - and I don&#039;t know why, because that was the norm for most people we knew. My mother would never have acknowledged that black &amp; white people were of the same species. I don&#039;t want to be that way, and I didn&#039;t try to teach my children to be that way and always welcomed all their friends of diverse ethnicities to our home. I&#039;m happy that I mave evolved to a great extent from the bigoted mindset I once had, but I still have to mentally kick myself in the ass sometimes when I fall short. America&#039;s &quot;melting pot&quot; still has a ways to go - lots of concrete in that hole.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Cedar Creek, post: 2721057, member: 12387"] I grew up in SE Oklahoma AKA "Little Dixie". My family, like most in the region, descended from origins in Alabama, Georgia, South & North Carolina, and had strong feelings of racial superiority regarding people of color. My mother's family especially. I really didn't know my dad's family, but he didn't use the "N" and didn't approve of his kids talking that way - and I don't know why, because that was the norm for most people we knew. My mother would never have acknowledged that black & white people were of the same species. I don't want to be that way, and I didn't try to teach my children to be that way and always welcomed all their friends of diverse ethnicities to our home. I'm happy that I mave evolved to a great extent from the bigoted mindset I once had, but I still have to mentally kick myself in the ass sometimes when I fall short. America's "melting pot" still has a ways to go - lots of concrete in that hole. [/QUOTE]

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