a lot to do with her knowledge or the fact her learning this was not discouraged. Good job!

thanks for the nice comment

...I drove to Florida with my grandparents. I-95 wasn’t even finished yet, you had to get off the interstate and drive through rural Georgia on what I think was route 20. I set up “camp” on the rear window deck of the car. Remember those days? Anyway, being the lone kid in the car, I had to entertain myself spotting Stuckey’s and South of the Border signs. And reading. The brand new book my parents gave me for the trip was a kids bio of Martin Luther King. I had pretty radical parents.

an Atlanta satellite city, very middle class, and his friends are a very mixed group coming from mostly mixed neighborhoods.

Of course, an hour north where we live is very different, very white and extremely conservative. And when we drive south on the way to Florida, we hit the black belt where a large portion of the state's almost 1/3 black population live. Interestingly, over the past generation a lot of children and grandchildren of people who left for good jobs in other states have been returning for good, positive reasons, but furthering integration isn't one of them.

I have a granddaughter who's 2 and she goes to a daycare that is very diverse. It brings tears to my eyes when she walks into her class and her little friends run to greet her and hug her. She is Caucasian but her classmates are Hispanic and African American and whatever else, and it makes no difference to 2-year olds what their skin color or parental heritage is. They are just so full of love. Hatred and bigotry and racism is something that is taught by the adults in their lives, not something they are born with.