![]() “Plus, you act like I got grapefruits gal-low up in here. “Matter of fact, tell me one thing you eat that don’t got butter in it. “Nigga, you don’t eat grapefruits,” LaThon said. “These white folk don’t even know that you an oT grapefruit-by-the-pound-eating-ass nigga. “These white folk know we here on discount,” he told me, “but they don’t even know.” LaThon, who we both thought looked just like a slew-footed K-Ci from Jodeci, and I sat in the back of homeroom the first day of school doing what we always did: we intentionally used and misused last year’s vocabulary words while LaThon cut up his pink grapefruit with his greasy, dull butter knife. Richard, students had to wear khaki or blue pants or skirts and light blue, white, or pink shirts. Unlike at Holy Family, where we could wear what we wanted, at St. Richard.Īll three of us black boys from Holy Family were placed in another. ![]() Richard Catholic School in Jackson, Mississippi, because Holy Family, the poor all-black Catholic school we attended most of our lives, closed unexpectedly due to lack of funding.Īll four of the black girls from Holy Family were placed in one homeroom at St. ![]() These white folk watched us toss black vocabulary words, a dull butter knife, and pink grapefruit slices hack and forth until it was time for us to go home. ![]() You were on your way back from Hawaii with Malachi Hunter while LaThon Simmons and I sat in the middle of a white eighth-grade classroom, in a white Catholic school, filled with white folk we didn’t even know. ![]()
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