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Paul in Woodinville Washington hey Paul thanks for listening k BCS
Italo tell my tale of how I believe the term
racism begins with recent bigotry begins with a good thing it did in my case
in as a 12-year-old boy many years ago when I was in 7th grade
I had a math teacher who I love her name with missus goldfarb
and I love her because she was drop-dead gorgeous
to the really fun teacher and she was kind of short so she was about
I level with us junior high kids which made it me think that it might be
possible that I could marry miss goldfarb and
I was a the time she was talk to our friends we're doing our problems and now
it's on my friend I want to buy an electric guitar in my friend said
I in my mom said I don't cover half the money in my friend said
well want to get a paper route and I said though okay but I he said he had
one night so how much do you make me said well it depends on if the customers
want to pay
with some kinda paper there was actual payment in
and I said mean they don't have to pay delivered I said you're getting chewed
and with goldfarb came over to me and poor minor of insert the word
chewed is not a popular word in this classroom I don't ever wanna hear she
was yelling at me
from and I had no idea why I thought boy that's a cut for I never
thought I of our mother so the of order worship the C word
where I got a note to come see my counselor in my Carter said the missus
golfer would like me to find another math teacher
writes a book Why I really like her and she said well
she watches all he said he would you like this goal into classroom I said I'd
like to go into mister party crasher I like em
he said mister he was black by the way he said I don't know if that's a good
idea and I said
ok why he said well I sit here so I could choose any likely gonna mister
heart is Roman
I have good time mister heart is Roman at the end of the year
he said you need to bring the book back are the book is to go back to missus
golfarb class in
and he said would you like to bring it or should I and I said I don't know he
said
way I think you should I brought it back and she was just as happy and cheerful
this whole time I never knew why this it happen Intel I was in cars with my first
three Michigan State
I have a girlfriend who was Jewish and she told me with she says I met you and
I said
the war it word had never passed my lips sense a seventh grader said what does
that mean
she said well that's my religion and my ethnicity
and I see explain to me about Judaism
and I told her the story about missus goal pharmacy explain to me the
about the stereotyping why that word was offensive
and right then and there at nineteen years old I wept
I thought I can't believe that I hurt this
personal so terribly I still feel that way to the I wish that I could run into
that person and tell her
how badly I feel I still
about that the current saying that I said and Tom
I was not in a well-informed person in those days I was just starting college
but
from that time on I have decided I don't use words that I don't know what they
mean
came a la carte a lot of other things like the word
chipped you know gypsy juleps gypsy Welsh
I don't use words like that and I think a lot of people use words
that are hurtful because they're ignorant and they need
to become informed and educated yeah brilliant story part thanks for calling
ish
and ensuring that story with us thats that's it that's a deep one
thank you so much