Are we still hung up on race issues, really?
The Brown Dirt Cowboy When I first came to Albany, GA in January 2010 the president of the small HBCU where I was hired to work told me that he was happy to see that there was going to be a "west coast attitude" on campus. After living in South West Georgia for almost four years I am starting to to understand what he meant. I grew up in southern California where I was surrounded by 80% white folks and the rest were "other". I did not know that I lived in a bad neighborhood until I was older and had moved away from it and told people where I was from. I spent my early childhood in what was called South Central Los Angeles or was lumped into being called Watts after the Watts Riots in 1965. I thought it was normal to live in a neighborhood with two rival gangs, the Crips and the Bloods . It was not until I moved to Pomona, CA that I realized that there were Hispanic gangs in California as well. It was not until I moved to La Jolla in north San Diego count