Closing the door
So I have been going back and forth with my feelings on this subject. I am a African American Woman that was born in a small town in Connecticut. Prominently the population was Caucasian, African American, Puerto Rican and Indian. I grew up in a middle class neighborhood where I was beat up daily by 3 little white boys from the time I was able to go outside to play solo until I was jumped on my front porch and my mother told me it was okay to fight back . We moved to an exclusive neighborhood where we were the only Blacks and some neighbors didn't take to kind to their new neighbors. This neighborhood was where doctors, lawyers and other business owners lived. My mother later shared that the house we had brought was directly across the street from where she was once a maid for the owners. Two doors down from us was a man who didn't like Blacks and had a black dog trained to attack Blacks. So picture a eight year old little girl was ...