country bumpkins vs. city slickers

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Pls to be telling us about Black History Month in your town.

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what are a black history month?

jk.

seriously though, we really only had like 3 black families. one of them was a white family with 3 adopted black kids. one was a mom, dad and 4 kids from chicago, and one was a mom, dad and 3 kids from somewhere in california.

and to be completely honest i don't think anyone ever did anything to make them feel out of place or not welcome at all, and if they did, i sure as hell didn't know it, and they sure as hell didn't show that they didn't feel right at home.

there weren't lynchings or beatings, or graffiti or anything like that, and the black families were no different than anyone else. they were honor roll kids, athletes, musicians, blah blah blah just like the white kids.

it's sad that for some reason towns under 5k people automatically are assumed to be a bunch of religious freaks that hate coloreds. our town was really not like that at all.

and in response to that post about not belonging to the church making your life harder, that's true but only to an extent. they were never ridiculed or put down or ignored because they didn't go to church. if they needed help with stuff, there were still going to be 25+ people at their doorstep too because even if they didn't go to church with you, you still knew them and liked them from some other facet of society.

i think the only thing that may have made their life more difficult, but only in the absolute smallest sense possible, was the times that they were asked when they were going to join the church, or something to that effect. but it wasn't ever like there were 10 people dressed up like Jesus throwing bibles at their door. it was just nonchalant conversation and was often done in a humorous manner.