Edward Schenkenfelder
Oak Forest, IL
I grew up in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s in Cicero, Illinois. Back then the city’s zero black American population was strictly enforced. I worked at the Bel-Air Drive In with a Black youth about 17 years old. He said “my six words” after being chased by a group of young Cicero natives. Today when I realize that I am painting someones actions with a colored brush I try to remember what that must have been like for those black Americans who had to interact with Cicero for one reason or another, and I raised my children differently, in a neighborhood that is definitely not the Cicero of my youth. .
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