Kudos to you, mooney, for changing your views and for your candor on your old views.
I don't have a question but I've noticed that real-life relationships with people who don't look like oneself and attaining an education are really the keys to dumping racist views.
I grew up in a small, very conservative town. There was maybe one black family there when I was growing up. No Latinos and the only Asians I saw worked in the one Chinese restaurant.
Ironically, all 5 of us kids turned out quite liberal, including one brother who's been in the military for 27 years and another brother that lives in Austin!
How you were raised doesn't have to be your destiny.
-Teresa
I don't have a question but I've noticed that real-life relationships with people who don't look like oneself and attaining an education are really the keys to dumping racist views.
I grew up in a small, very conservative town. There was maybe one black family there when I was growing up. No Latinos and the only Asians I saw worked in the one Chinese restaurant.
Ironically, all 5 of us kids turned out quite liberal, including one brother who's been in the military for 27 years and another brother that lives in Austin!
How you were raised doesn't have to be your destiny.
-Teresa
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