Hey Folks, good weed to all of you
, ok fish it is catching on
Dismissed continued --
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On to "A" school and my first barracks room... where I learn what racial prejudice is really all about.
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Millington Tennessee ... dang.
Before I go on I have to explain how naive I was. I grew up in upstate New York and lived in a rural town. Out of about 500 kids in my class 2 were black. I was taught that it was bad to be prejudice and shown examples of white folks being prejudice against black folks. That is all I knew and that is how I thought it was, I held 0 animosity towards black folks... why would I? A couple of the guys I sat with on the roof in boot were black
When I met my first room mate I had no problem he was black, in fact we would become friends. We talked and told brief histories, then he told me this was going to be a tough room to live in. What? He went on to tell me my other three room mates were also black, I was like so? He said that two of them were not "cool". I had no idea what he meant but I quickly found out. Another room mate showed up he was quiet and kept to himself, he was also "cool". Then "they" rolled in. The mouth of the two took one look at me and said "Fuck no!, I knew they were going to put a fucking white boy in here and fuck us all up" The other one said some agreeing rump swabbing comment.
Holy shit... my mind was reeling, this did not even make sense. These guys were prejudice against ME! What? WTF? I prided myself in not being prejudice. I had no problem what color you were, as long as you would burn one with me
I don't know if I said anything, I think I just stood there stunned. To make things worse "the mouth" was my top bunk mate, yay. For the next week I suffered every nasty slang you could call a white guy. The mouth would physically try to intimidate me getting in my face and so on while calling me a ration of shit. This was fucking awesome (sarcasm)... holy shit.
Then it happened, the mouth bought an 8 track and one tape, the Commodores
Oh it gets better. He starts to play the tape 24/7. This lasts for two sleepless days for me then I delivered... "the ultimatum"