http://www.desert-peach.com/comic/the-desert-peach-4-page-28/ Chronicling the Adventures of the Gay Younger Brother of The Desert Fox. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:12:43 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.desert-peach.com/comic/the-desert-peach-4-page-28/comment-page-1/#comment-218 admin Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:38:33 +0000 http://www.desert-peach.com/the-desert-peach-4-page-28/#comment-218 My brother once used the N word. My mother washed his mouth out with Lava soap while the rest of us stood around big-eyed. My father once said "dirty Indian" OUT of hearing of my mother. When I was mad at him, I yelled, "I'm gonna go live with the Indians!" Which I did. Your experience sounds like the "How to Make an Atheist" process: raise them in church. My brother once used the N word. My mother washed his mouth out with Lava soap while the rest of us stood around big-eyed. My father once said “dirty Indian” OUT of hearing of my mother. When I was mad at him, I yelled, “I’m gonna go live with the Indians!” Which I did. Your experience sounds like the “How to Make an Atheist” process: raise them in church.

]]> http://www.desert-peach.com/comic/the-desert-peach-4-page-28/comment-page-1/#comment-217 blackcatx3 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:56:23 +0000 http://www.desert-peach.com/the-desert-peach-4-page-28/#comment-217 And on the other hand, some black people have a negative reaction to my rural Kentucky accent. Yes, I grew up with parents who used the "N" word, and segregated schools through 6th grade. Whitney Young Jr and I had our awareness of Jim Crow raised at exactly the same place-- the Shelby Theater. What it meant to two kids was that neither one of us could sit where we wanted when we went there. My generation is the one that had to outgrow that stuff. It helped that I considered it morally wrong from the git-go. My parents absolutely would not send me to a Southern school in the sixties for that reason. And on the other hand, some black people have a negative reaction to my rural Kentucky accent. Yes, I grew up with parents who used the “N” word, and segregated schools through 6th grade. Whitney Young Jr and I had our awareness of Jim Crow raised at exactly the same place– the Shelby Theater. What it meant to two kids was that neither one of us could sit where we wanted when we went there. My generation is the one that had to outgrow that stuff. It helped that I considered it morally wrong from the git-go. My parents absolutely would not send me to a Southern school in the sixties for that reason.

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