By Mary Sue Rabe | Race Relations , Stories
Forgiveness Freed Me from Decades of Burden Did you ever make an innocent mistake as a child that grew to haunt you as an adult? That’s what happened to me. I grew up in a plantation-like environment. There were many African American people who worked for my family, and they were not treated equally in […]
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Rodee was like a second mother to me as she was our housekeeper and my closest companion for the first nine years of my life. She was my best friend and I think that I was closer to her than to my own mother when I was little. She started working for my family shortly before I was born.
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January, this is the time of year that reminds me of another person who “lived on the place”. James was a 55 year old African American man who worked on my father’s land. He was the handy man responsible for putting up and taking down our Christmas decorations for the front of the house. He […]
Continue Reading...By Mary Sue Rabe | Social Justice , Stories , Women's Issues
In the world of healing, what needs to be healed in me is my conflict about race, which began at a young age. A few years ago, as I was applying for a passport, I finally really examined my birth certificate and noticed my father’s occupation listed as “plantationer”, which I do not think is […]
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