Time For Whites To Wake Up

[Rahul]

My best friend in high school was from Mexico. Last name of Jasso. His family moved up here when he was 5 years old. I used to joke with him that he was more American than me. And his mom made the best hot sauce on the planet. We used to sit in his kitchen and eat the stuff till the sweat was pouring down our faces. We were around each other so much that when one of us showed up to hang out with each other we didn't even have a single word to say. One of us just showed up and sat next to the other. When I left home people later told me that he went into a major depression and broke down for a few months. Started acting really odd.

My best friend in the military was a black guy from South Carolina. At night when everyone would bunk down I would walk around and find where he went to sleep. Then bed down close to him. Sometimes I'd have to wander around for half an hour to find him. He probably thought it was weird that every time he woke up this crazy white Texas boy was asleep not six feet from him. But he was a fellow Southerner with a thick Southern accent. So he was my people. Damn yankees were everywhere.