So I quote pollock master sgt, One benefit of the Vietnam war going to school with black kids
So it’s a ramble I’m over my Covid isolation sitting on back porch. So I’m talking with my wife and boys over coffee earlier and we were talking about my family back home in western Pennsylvania. To quote pollock master sgt a hateful pack of hyenas my relatives in western Pennsylvania we grew up members of same tribe the master sgt and i. My point is living as child in military community it was diverse as in black and white my first three years of elementary school was the same until we moved home to magastan western Pennsylvania as I refer to it now and absolutely no diversity.
In military community us young kids played together we went school together ate Mayo and bologna and processed cheese sandwiches at each other’s homes. Years later I remember walking around benning after jump school and seeing this playground so I’m thinking that looks familiar and maybe twelve years earlier as a young kid we played on that playground as the housing area was across the road.
And even in the army well infantry racism was not a issue eighteen years after civil Wrights movement. Any racism was usually generational learned yet unlearned really fast. Example a young kid from Alabama I remember this cuz he was proud he was from Alabama him I at time perhaps eighteen in age a couple days into our osut infantry cycle refusing to shower with black folks the Drill sgt telling him to shower was black. I’m thinking this will not end well and it didn’t yet nothing ended well at osut in benning it was just how it was as in always collective punishment one fucks up all pay.
Today we live in central Pennsylvania between Wayneboro and Gettysburg very rural and magastan the keystone state the Mississippi of the north and its so true. So in my ramble yea the first three maybe four years of elementary school being so diverse is the perhaps the reason I’m the way I am today. Sure I have prejudice in me towards republicans trumpublican nazis any run of the mill facist.