I never visited my college campus to pick out a dorm after being accepted, which meant I was the only white kid in my dorm. This was in the 1990s.
I remember one of the black guys I met brought up the 400 years thing when talking about racial inequality and asked me how I felt about it.
I let him know my grandfather migrated from Italy in the late 1940s and got a job building cars in Detroit, MI, and said I didn't hold it against him that many of the brothers working on the assembly line called him a dago and wop.
I never visited my college campus to pick out a dorm after being accepted, which meant I was the only white kid in my dorm. This was in the 1990s.
I remember one of the black guys I met brought up the 400 years thing when talking about racial inequality and asked me how I felt about it.
I let him know my grandfather migrated from Italy in the late 1940s and got a job building cars in Detroit, MI, and said I didn't hold it against him that many of the brothers working on the assembly line called him a dago and wop.
I think he got it at that point.