>>85085087I grew up with nobody ever talking about religion or race or anything, not once until I was maybe 13 was I even aware of the concepts and I never considered anything odd about this.
This wasn't on purpose it was just that in all that time nobody had thought to talk about any of these things to me.
I always assumed that skin color was like hair color which at the time I believed to be completely random, that when you are born you just end up with a eye, hair and skin color completely at random, I thought this because I noticed that kittens can look totally different from their parents and even cats in the same litter can look different.
I had no preconceived notions about anyone and it stayed that way until the fifth grade when a black teacher of mine decided to give me detention when I failed to understand when she tried to lay responsibility for slavery on me personally, (It was a history class, she asked all the white students to stand up so she could point at them and say that they and their ancestors were responsible for slavery and racism. I didn't stand because I didn't know I was white) And after having my parents called it took two hours of my parents and the teacher explaining the concept of race for me to even begin to understand the categories that people put humans into.
Also before you ask if I was sheltered I didn't live in some isolated community I grew up in the east side of Cleveland most of my classmates were black.
Now ask yourself am I better now than I was before for knowing about race or was I better in ignorance?
