I was at a school where racial segregation SEEMED to be the greatest thing since sliced bread. To them. Because the black girls had total control over our entire environment, and all the boys were in their section of the playground. The black girls were somehow in the spread out zone map of egalitarian war. I was the “journalist.” I wandered the playground, interviewing every segregated group on it. There were the black girls who jumped rope like it was goin out of style. There were the white girls who had to bow to that Goddess of Jumping, the master of the black girls. Everybody was into it funny. I didnt cause any of the events that happened there, I just entered each girl section of the segregated girls playground, interviewing every one of them like I was Alex Hailey or something, the ghost writer who helped Malcolm X write his book.
I will never make it that far in life…
I even got my damn African glasses knocked off when I tried to go to the boys playground and interview them. They had a non-racist playground going. We had a racist, tallist, shortest, Jewest, Christian, fat girl segregated playground going, and somehow, if it meant...