No one said, “We don’t talk about these things,” but it was understood, in the way that my African-American friend Bill Lee told me once, “No one in my family said, ‘Don’t walk across Baker Park it belongs to white people,’ but you just knew not to do it.” He did it anyway, as a kid, and he was arrested. We didn’t talk about these things at the dinner table. military as well as the assassinations of JFK, MLK and RFK, the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, large scale protests against and for the War and civil rights, women’s rights, gay rights heated political debates and elections, fights for integration and segregation - the year my school district was set for busing, my parents moved us to an apartment, ostensibly so the house would sell better in the spring (we were being transferred by the air force the following year) but probably so we wouldn’t have to change schools (and maybe more) - and the sure sense that I had no idea what anything was all about. I grew up in the 1960s as a child of rock candy, fizzies, Leave it to Beaver and the Andy Griffith Show, the suburbs, the American South, and the U.S. Diversity and my books, part 3, the Sixties Trilogy
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