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Taught me a lesson I should have known all along. What you do to children matters. And they might never forget.
No matter how hard we try to ignore it, the mind always knows truth and wants clarity.”
When I woke up I reminded myself that freedom is never free. You have to fight for it. Work for it and make sure you are able to handle it.
“Scientifically there’s no such thing as race, Bride, so racism without race is a choice. Taught, of course, by those who need it, but still a choice. Folks who practice it would be nothing without it.”
They will blow it, she thought. Each will cling to a sad little story of hurt and sorrow—some long-ago trouble and pain life dumped on their pure and innocent selves. And each one will rewrite that story forever, knowing the plot, guessing the theme, inventing its meaning and dismissing its origin. What waste.
Then he offered her the hand she had craved all her life, the hand that did not need a lie to deserve it, the hand of trust and caring for—a combination that some call natural love.
