Post by Susan Peabody on Jun 23, 2020 19:49:06 GMT
My daughter Kathy, who passed away, had two daughters. One was brown like her mother and other was white like her father.
They attended a liberal church and went to church schools so race really never came up. Today, they are dealing with what it is like to be of mixed race during these trying times.
Here is some correspondence I had with my son-in-law Monty.
Dear Monty:
I used to think things had changed and then after Rodney King I got discouraged. Now I look at things differently. There are many, bright articulate black people on television today. Integration did not affect the people it first happened to, but today's youth actually grew up together and have a new understanding of what black people are going through. The young whites don't like their friends being hurt.
By the way, the information was always there. I studied it in college 42 years ago. But it was not yet on the media or news or in high schools the way it is now.
God is behind all this and it is my grandchildren's generation who is going to lead the way.
I don't talk to Karl about this because he gets so angry. He was first arrested when he was 8 years old for trespassing on a white person's lawn in Albany. I went to pick him up and they made me wait so they could fingerprint him and take a mugshot. We had to go to court. All of his arrests have been for standing up to the police, even the time they beat him up in Berkeley for drinking a beer in public with his college friends. Normally they give out tickets for this, but then Karl was black and tall and had a big mouth. When he asked them why he was being arrested they said to make an example of him. He was never charged for the beer just for "resisting arrest." That is one of the most common reason blacks go to jail.
I wish Isabelle would talk to me. I have so much to tell her. Someday . . . Take care.
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