To hear the Simmons kids and chaperones say they still experience racism really mind boggles me because I honestly never experienced it. Then to top this whole experience we stop at the store that Emmett Till supposedly whistled at the white lady. History is taught and we read about it but we never actually go see it in person. It was kind surreal because I never really thought of it as real, just was history but to be less than 5 feet from inside the place where the beginning of the end of Emmett's life was makes me ache. The thought of the situation makes my stomach hurts. To take the color of my skin and the accomplishments my people have created for granted makes me ashamed. Writing this almost brings me to tears because to know its happened and is still happening, gosh it's ridiculous. I honestly don't know what else to say I'm speechless and amazed.
-ERW
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