You can't be prejudiced when your grandmother is a full blood Comanche Indian, your father, aunts, and uncles, are half-breeds and your mother, your uncles and aunts are Jewish! I was and am completely color-blind.

Coming home with a clean car- quite a story.

But Guess what they taught me?
Dare we ask?

Okay. If you liked that one. You'll love this one. I was Administrative Assistant to the Vice Chairman of the Board and Chief Financial Officer of a leading company. No one told me the Chairman owned a plantation in Louisiana. One day, we needed a 'fill in' receptionist. I called up a beautiful African American girl from one of the Departments. The Chairman's secretary came to me all aflutter and informed me the girl was 'Black'. I said, "And your problem is?". ' Well Mr (Blank) wants her out of here'. I said,'Okay, you go tell her that!' I went to the young African American girl and thanked her for filling in. She laughed and went back to her office. We had lunch together later that day.

I remember being taught a lot about Reconstruction, while slavery was whitewashed. When I was in school, Virginia history was taught as a separate subject in the 4th and 7th grades. However, I did not fall for all that too much. I saw through that. My parents were from Iowa and Minnesota.

Also here in Alabama, yep, me old dino remembers being taught that during the Sixties.

We weren't taught much of that here in Western NY, but I remember seeing such in "Gone With The Wind". It piqued my curiosity about reconstruction and I learned a lot on my own. After that I always was amazed at how many Southern boys were so willing to fight in the US military right up to today.