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Leilani Taneus-Miller
This book is not about me.
Yet I lived through the same time and in the same place.
So some of the things that happen to Shelly have happened to me, And others like me.
I was born in the city b...view moreThis book is not about me.
Yet I lived through the same time and in the same place.
So some of the things that happen to Shelly have happened to me, And others like me.
I was born in the city but moved to a small town.
We became the first blacks in our neighbourhood.
And then of course, like Shelly, I was the only black kid in my class.
Brushing racism aside was the done thing.
As good “negroes” we knew our places as second-class citizens.
‘Work harder, expect less,’ we were told.
‘Just pretend that didn’t happen,’ we were told.
Lucky for you, dear reader, I remember enough of what happened to write Shelly’s story.view less