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I see news article and posts referring to the phrase woke. Im not being difficult but I dint get into the term woke. Ever. Saying I have been woke sounds lame to me. I never made a definition for how i felt and thought.I think my thoughts are normal regarding the climate of race and relations in society. I remember my very first "wake up". I was in second grade. I was going to a predom white school. I had a friend I played with everyday. His name was Jason Acuna. Jason appeared to be indian to me. Not like east indian maybe native american indian. Thinking about it now he might have been hispanic. Anyway one day we were playing and his parents came and seen us playing together. They called him and they went home that day.After that day Jason never said another word to me. Never. We were third graders.

 

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I see news article and posts referring to the phrase woke. Im not being difficult but I dint get into the term woke. Ever. Saying I have been woke sounds lame to me. I never made a definition for how i felt and thought.I think my thoughts are normal regarding the climate of race and relations in society. I remember my very first "wake up". I was in second grade. I was going to a predom white school. I had a friend I played with everyday. His name was Jason Acuna. Jason appeared to be indian to me. Not like east indian maybe native american indian. Thinking about it now he might have been hispanic. Anyway one day we were playing and his parents came and seen us playing together. They called him and they went home that day.After that day Jason never said another word to me. Never. We were third graders.

Your story is the perfect example as to why we have to prep our children for racism early on. Society does not wait for our kids to reach a certain age before they start acting racist. We need to make sure we send our children out into the world ready for what is in store for them.