<br><br>Purps I have to agree that one positive thing I got from being raised as a witness is that I looked at everyone no matter what race as my brother or sister .
<br><br> My Dad and his family were not witnesses and vocally racist . I was born in the south ,S.C. and I don't remember if our hall was segregated , but I do know my mom talked about some of the halls in the south being that way in the early sixties . When we moved up north the school I went to had a good mixture of other cultures .
<br><br> When I was a teenager I was shocked to find out there was an underlying prejudice attitude even among witnesses. I was good friends with a brother at my school and hall that was bi-racial . We were just friends and liked to play tennis and hang out together . Until one day he told me my mom had gone to his parents and asked for him to stop doing things with me because she feared reprisal from my father .(which I really don't believe was the reason )He was so hurt by this and I was furious .Unfortunately it ended our friendship . In another relationship I had dated a black guy that wasn't a witness and the brothers gave me articles I was suppose to read about the hardships of bi-racial relationships and it could hinder our preaching work if others in the community saw it as wrong ....I really just ignored them , but I was surprised none the less that they didn't have the same viewpoint as me ,that we are all brothers and sisters .
<br><br> Now I live in a small all white town , and at one of my jobs I work with retired aged white men .Talk about prejudice !!! We have had many heated discussions over the use of the N -word ( not really a discussion , but rather me chastising them for the use of such a derogatory term )In their case it is pure , simple ignorance coupled with a very small world view . I have bi-racial relatives, and I would hate to think of them being spoken of this way . Election time was fun because I was an Obama supporter .
