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At the Tampa Bay Times, history professor Charles B. Dew–who, like me, grew up under Jim Crow–explains how he came realize how he was raised to be racist and how eventually, through education and experience, came to recognize racism for the evil it is. Now retired, he has returned to his native Florida.

Here’s how he starts his article (emphasis added):

I was born and raised in St. Pete, and I grew up a racist. I have written about this process in a book titled “The Making of a Racist,” and one reason for my persistent juvenile bigotry was the fact that my racist ideas were never challenged, not once, as I went through North Ward Elementary School and Mirror Lake Junior High in the 1940s and ‘50s.

I suspect our current governor would be just fine with this.

Follow the link, where explains what he meant with the last sentence above.

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