'He was white, but I didn't think of him as white. My mind couldn't process it because he didn't act like most whites.'
Before the Civil War ended, according to historian and abolitionist W.E.B. DuBois, there were some slaves willing to fight for the South to keep slavery. How could this possibly be? But it's true. Maybe some of these slaves were treated decently by their slave masters and were willing to fight for them. Others would have beenFredrick Douglass was a slave who became a voluntary friend to his former master, Thomas Auld. When they were reunited neither could stop themselves from crying.
Still, these friendships between people of different cultures or races seem so impossible. Yet, I'm reminded of meeting Gary Chapman, theIt was in 1968 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The racial tension in this city with civil rights protests, the Ku Klux Klan, and Black Panthers brought out the National Guard. Segregation legally ended in 1964 but was still being practiced in Winston-Salem.
He was white, but I didn't think of him as white. My mind couldn't process it because he didn't act like most whites. Gary was nice.The first time Gary drove into my neighborhood to pick up my friend James and I was almost the last time.
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