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My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and i think psychotic - way to face racism. so she taught us to be racist, which is something i had to undo later when i got to michigan, you know.

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James Earl Jones

My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and i think psychotic - way to face racism. so she taught us to be racist, which is something i had to undo later when i got to michigan, you know.

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I think that's very significant that we're so attached to the idea now of - it was something i advocated for years, that you can make music in studios, music doesn't have to be made as a real-time experience. but now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of "cut and paste" and "undo." and "undo" and "undo" and "undo" and "undo" and "undo" again.

And my point was one i think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in america for a black racist, a latino racist, or a white racist, or an asian racist, or a native american racist. now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.

So my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail dresses she no longer intended to wear to cocktail parties. even in her rose garden she did not want to appear underdressed. if the dresses got too dirty from gardening, she threw them out. when my mother suggested to her that she might have them cleaned, my grandmother said, "what? and have those people at the cleaners what i was doing in a dress to make it that dirty?" from my grandmother i learned that logic is relative.

Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. these workshops are important, yet they tend to focus primarily on cathartic individual psychological personal prejudice without stressing the need for corresponding change in political commitment and action. a woman who attends an unlearning racism workshop and learns to acknowledge that she is racist is no less a threat than one who does not. acknowledgment of racism is significant when it leads to transformation.

I was raised by a single mom who had to put herself through school while looking after two kids. and she worked hard every day and made a lot of sacrifices to make sure we got everything we needed. my grandmother, she started off as a secretary in a bank. she never got a college education, even though she was smart as a whip. and she worked her way up to become a vice president of a local bank, but she hit the glass ceiling. she trained people who would end up becoming her bosses during the course of her career.

She smiled. she knew she was dying. but it did not matter any longer. she had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. she had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. a moment or an eternity- did it matter? life, undefeated, existed and could exist. she smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.

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