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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 3130654" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>My mostly Cherokee mother quit school after 9th grade to marry my father.  After their divorce we missed many a meal, lived in two rooms of an unfinished house for years.  I worked in Florida summer heat 35 hours a week picking weeds at a plant nursery when I was 12 for a dollar an hour.  And because I was big I got constantly jumped by black guys all throughout junior high and high school.  Didn't stop me from having Black friends though.  Played basketball down at the Black courts all the time.  A good friend of mine from first grade stopped about six guys from beating the hell out of me for no reason other than I was white and made the mistake of walking home when I was 19 from those courts after dark.  He was murdered several months later.  And by the way due to my heritage I tan very easily.  Nothing pasty here.</p></blockquote><p></p>