Thank you for your reply. I’m having a hard time orienting myself, in these racism discussions and it helps to know when I’m off or on topic. One of your other comments from Tim Reedwell posted a link to one of his articles. I read it and connections started sparking. My little brain has been firing like fireworks. Thanks to him your work is making more sense to me.

Before I go… I remembered that case because I read it in my high school history class, but I did not go to a public school. I was a delinquent and got kicked out of public schools. I’d missed 7, 8 and 9th grades before a progressive order of nuns got hold of me and sent me to a private all girl’s school. In that school, the works of Karl Marx (so human), Frederick Douglass (truth), Ayn Rand (I think she was insane - literally), Hayim Nahman Bialik (my talisman), Thomas Jefferson (superficial intellectual, no depth) and James Baldwin (my first encounter with exquisite) were required readings and a thorough understanding required to pass.

I found myself in those books and my life changed. For the next fifty years, I advocated and argued from those books, I worked towards their vision, they drove my civic activism and they are with me still. I’m here, struggling still, because of them.

I like to imagine possibility (cause that’s where futures come from). Imagine if that case I posted was assigned reading in American history classes in public schools. Just that one case, could free a child’s mind. Once a child’s mind is free, they seek context on their own.

PS. If you ever find yourself interested in my mistakes, let me know. Failure is my best teacher.