Joe, I am so very sorry you had that experience as a child, an upbringing that left you questioning "If Negroes had a soul?'. Being brought up in Palo Alto in the 1940's my experience with racism had more to do with Japanese and Asians, although East PA apparently was more Black, however, my parents never spoke of non-white people as though they were less meaningfully human than whites, just perhaps that they "looked different" but never that their needs were different from ours. When the government sent Japanese people to concentration camps my father tried to get the ones who worked for us, and their children, able to live with us instead, but the authorities refused and sent them away, including the children, for the duration of the war. Anna
Joe, I am so very sorry you had that experience as a child, an upbringing that left you questioning "If Negroes had a soul?'. Being brought up in Palo Alto in the 1940's my experience with racism had more to do with Japanese and Asians, although East PA apparently was more Black, however, my parents never spoke of non-white people as though they were less meaningfully human than whites, just perhaps that they "looked different" but never that their needs were different from ours. When the government sent Japanese people to concentration camps my father tried to get the ones who worked for us, and their children, able to live with us instead, but the authorities refused and sent them away, including the children, for the duration of the war. Anna
How old were you when you asked that question, Dad? So painful. Sunday school!
First grader
What a resounding, framing memory!