(05-03-2023, 08:25 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: Growing up in rural Kansas was racial oblivion. Not only was it only white people, but the only time we saw people of any other race was on TV or when we went to Topeka. I don’t recollect talking to a black person until I was 13. I also don’t recollect any racist discussions with my friends or at school. It simply wasn’t brought up because we weren’t confronted with dealing with any other race, except Penny Hotchkiss who was adopted from Korea. But since she had always lived there no one gave her a second thought.