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Re: should I move to Alabama?
Posted by tator2ter on 2/22/08

    On 1/17/08, Nigel Byrd wrote:
    > On 6/15/05, Tanya wrote:
    >> Hi,
    >>
    >> I really need some help. I am a special education teacher
    >> thinking of moving to Alabama. But looking for a job is the
    >> least of my worries. I am white and I am moving to be with
    >> a black man. I have a son. If I didn't have him to
    >> consider, I would have moved a long time ago. But my fiance
    >> is concerned about how other people (namely children) would
    >> treat my son because of the mixed relationship. I live in
    >> BC, Canada. My fiance says I have no idea what it is like
    >> there. I plan to visit Alabama with my son first to see
    >> what it's like but a visit isn't going to give a true
    >> picture.
    >>
    >> Can someone help me, please? Tell me what I could possibly
    >> expect? It is hard for me to believe that children would
    >> pick on another child because his step-father is of a
    >> different colour. Is that what would really happen?
    >>
    >> Thanks
    >>
    >> Tanya
    >


    I just recently moved to Alabama and live near Georgia as
    well. In the bigger cities it doesn't seem to be as much of a
    problem, but in the smaller communities like where I live they
    are TIGHT KNIT and stick together. Black or white. I remember
    when our bus driver first met us and he said he kept getting
    asked about the new family and he says he told them, "How
    would I know, you know black folk don't mix with whites". And
    unfortunately, it is sad but true in this area. In the "Deep
    South" racism is more prominent even against mixed kids. Our
    original bus driver retired and the woman that replaced him is
    white, but has mixed children and they get picked on she said.
    But like I said, that is the community I live in and may not
    be the case in other communities.

     
     

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