Black History Fact #10
True story.
When I lived in Abilene, Texas during the years of 2009–2015. I was working at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas. I was in the Federal Employees Plan division. This division only handled federal employees. This included the President of the United States. At that time, it was Barack Obama Jr. I spoke to him a few times on the telephone.
Me, being a big city girl, all my life, from Detroit. I did not know how to ‘interact’ with the natives of Abilene. I say this because a lot of the natives thought I was very ‘disrespectful’. I wasn’t supposed to be, by their standards, educated and look them straight in the eyes, while speaking to them. And I never said, “Yes, ma’am” or “Yes, sir”.
Well, one day while I was working. I overheard a fellow employee there say, she did not understand why the Black folks there had to go to the same school as her. I was a little perplexed by that statement. I did a little digging. I found out that Blacks did not go to school with the white kids, until 1969!
I was ASTOUNDED!
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