Were My Parents Always Racists?
The enigma of a globe-trotting couple who took a stand for civil rights fifty years ago.
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3 min readOct 12, 2020
Were my parents, Burt and SallyJo always racists underneath a facade?
The family lore was that the cross burned on our front yard, my first memory, was because we were black people-lovers, only that’s not the exact vocabulary used. That…