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<font face="Times New Roman,Times"><font size=+1>There were no black people
in Grants Pass when my mother was growing up. There is a "Black Sambo"
story told about her: The first time she ever saw a black person, she asked:
"Why does that man have shoe polish all over his face?" I forget now how
old she was, but she must have been quite young. I also grew up in Grants
Pass, and didn't know about blacks or hispanics until we moved to California
for a brief period of time. I knew about Chinese because of neighbors.
Your wife died in 1993? She was terrified by black people for the rest
of her life? That seems mighty strange, as she would have lifed through
the civil rights movement and should have had enough exposure to blacks
to know the majority of them aren't going to put anybody in a "stew pot!"</font></font>
<p>Cecil Houk wrote:
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<font face="Arial">The following
is <b>NOT</b> PC.</font> <font face="Arial">The story of "Little Black
Sambo" is no longer allowed in this country, but it was very popular in
the 1940's. Not only in the USA, but also in Japan.</font> <font face="Arial">Prior
to WWII Japan was a "closed society"; no foreigners were allowed.
The only exposure to black people the Japanese people had was "Little Black
Sambo" and stories of African cannibals.</font> <font face="Arial">One
day in 1946, a young girl was walking home from school. She passed
a field where American occupation soldiers were playing baseball.
One of them offered her a candy bar... he was black!</font> <font face="Arial">She
envisioned herself in a big stew pot!! She ran all the way home -
screaming. She was terrified by black people for the rest of her
life.</font> <font face="Arial">I know this is true because she was
my first wife. She died in 1993, but not in a stew pot; cancer.</font> <img SRC="cid:part1.40D0A5F3.6CB435E3@wi.net" ALT="" BORDER=0 ><font face="Arial">Midori
Murakami</font><font face="Arial">1935-1993</font> <font face="Arial">Cecil
Houk, ET1 USN Ret.</font>
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