tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21266499.post7194836949445909277..comments2023-08-15T09:52:16.785-05:00Comments on RainesKitchen: how much has changed in my lifetimeRaineShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11797874960136225669noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21266499.post-33861051782476432122009-02-15T11:24:00.000-05:002009-02-15T11:24:00.000-05:00You and I grew up in very similar socio-economic c...You and I grew up in very similar socio-economic conditions, even though I was in a single parent household. <BR/><BR/>Our neighborhood was 100% white. By the time I was in sixth grade there was one black boy and one Jewish boy in my entire school. Though our vice principal was a large black man that all the kids feared (though he really was a very nice guy if you talked to him one-on-one).<BR/><BR/>Most of our neighbors were blue collar whites and transplanted hillbillies. Graduating from high school was a stellar achievement, since many of the parents hadn't made it through (including my own mother). <BR/><BR/>We moved up a notch in the socio-economic spectrum by the time I got to high school. Still, in a school of around 600 kids, there were four blacks and no Jews. <BR/><BR/>My mom had black and Jewish friends, so the concept wasn't quite so alien to me. However, I didn't have any non-white serious friends my own age until college.<BR/><BR/>I am sometimes concerned, living in NH, that my son isn't exposed to enough cultural diversity. He probably sees more kids 'of color' than I did at his age, but not by much.Kitten Herderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15723615036218488946noreply@blogger.com