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ONLY ON THE OUTSIDE

Penelope T. Carroll

ORG 506– Leadership and Diversity

July 30, 2005



ONLY ON THE OUTSIDE

Skin color is only skin deep. This is listed as number four on the top ten things you and I should know about race on a PBS website. (California Newsreel, 2003). Only ten? How would I know. As a Caucasian female raised in a small eastern Colorado town, I did not know that there was such a list. In fact, I was not taught anything about people of other races and cultures, unless it came out of a text book. People of color did not live in this town. I had no interaction with blacks until I was 18 and married and living on my own. Only skin deep. I wish I would have known then.
The ignorance on my part only bred fear. I had only the words of a beligerant father to tell me about blacks. He was brought up in the south and lived as a teen through the desegregation years. He spent his formative years thinking that race was more than skin deep.......

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