From one who got out of the small town. Interesting counterpoint.
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"All the Black people lived on one side of town, and all the White people lived on the other. Our churches were separate. We went to school together, but it was at school that I was called or heard the n-word from White students on a weekly basis. The racism of my small town was naked and powerful; seething hatreds were baked into its soil."
https://wapo.st/3Y8yKSy