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Beautiful tribute to his mother who sounds like a very special person that created an awesome world for her children and kept her kids living at a pace that left hardly any time to question race or what group they "belonged" to. She reminds me of Trevor Noah's mother in "Born a Crime."
"The question of race was like the power of the moon. It's what made the rivers flow, the ocean swell, and the tide rise, but it was a slight power, intractable, indomitable, indisputable, and thus completely igno ...more
"The question of race was like the power of the moon. It's what made the rivers flow, the ocean swell, and the tide rise, but it was a slight power, intractable, indomitable, indisputable, and thus completely igno ...more
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