KLSoc

"I am glad we didn’t know about racism then, because concepts have a way of superimposing themselves on persons and the person is obliterated. I know because I grew up in the South and I was Negro, colored, nigger. When I was in college there in Nashville, Tennessee, each spring semester the white exchange students came from places like Oberlin and Wooster and Colby and Pomona and they did not know I was a concept and through them I, too, learned that I was not a concept and neither were they."