In Dixieland, I Take This Stand

I am a white person. You may have noticed that from the pictures. I am a white person from the Deep South, born in 1970, and raised mostly in military towns by people who were pretty decent human beings.

What that means is that I was in a military-brat bubble, so I missed a lot of what was happening in civilian neighborhoods around the country in the 70s. I lived in mixed populations, and grew up around people who were from all over the world, and my parents never talked to me in terms of Us...