John Muir's Yosemite
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| Half Dome, Yosemite National Park |
Oops! Excuse my accidental racism
My 70's class from Pearl River Central, Carriere, Mississippi H ave you ever just said the wrong thing? H ave you ever been so comfortable with your own skin that you made an off color joke about someone else’s? Or , do you harbor deep thoughts of ill will and dislike that eventually the inside darkness spills out into sunlight, the thoughts become words or actions, leaking out the poison that is within your skin cells? Then you might be a racist. Tracy Being Southern, talking all country and stuff, doesn’t mean you were born racist, or that is okay to act racist or its mandatory that you apologize and make up for a racist history. This country gal is a product of a changing world that has embraced the good parts of being from south Mississippi and pushed the ugly back into a dark precipice. I have witnessed a transformation of white and black growing up together in the sixties and seventies. Uniquely, I am the generation of moving past r...
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