The First time i was called a Nigger...
...... by a white person I was ten years old and strolling down Rockaway Boulevard (Queens) with my seven-year-old brother in tow.
Back then South Ozone Park was made up of mostly Italians who were fiercely trying to protect their bedroom community from the onslaught of AF-AM's who were escaping the tenement houses of Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Bronx and pouring into their community in droves.
On that day, I was headed to my grandparent's home. They lived (my grandmother still lives) on 134...
Back then South Ozone Park was made up of mostly Italians who were fiercely trying to protect their bedroom community from the onslaught of AF-AM's who were escaping the tenement houses of Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Bronx and pouring into their community in droves.
On that day, I was headed to my grandparent's home. They lived (my grandmother still lives) on 134...
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