Can We Get Rid of Racist Trump?

` I was born and lived in Washington, D.C. from 1944 until 1956. In 1950 I started the first grade in West Elementary School on Farragut Street.

In 1953 the Supreme Court issued its historic Brown v. Board decision which said that separate wasn’t equal when it came to public education and that segregated school systems had to change.

Until I entered the 5th grade in 1954, I had attended an all-white school. The D.C. public schools, believe it or not, were segregated, but because they were located on federal property, the system had to integrate right away.

The D.C. school administration decided to integrate the system with a two-year plan. The first year they integrated one school as a ‘pilot,’ the second year the entire system changed.

My school, West Elementary, was chosen as the pilot school, and when I walked into my fifth-grade classroom on the first day, there were now both black kids and white kids in their seats.

I don’t recall thinking anything at all about the fact that my class had a whole bunch of new kids with whom I could make friends until during the first recess when we went out into the playground, several of my white friends took me aside and made comments about those ‘niggers’ who smelled bad and were ‘dumb’ or ‘stupid’ and shouldn’t have been allowed into the school.