Ain’t no n***** Santa Claus, kid

Rebecca Lee Hammons
Eugene, OR

My race card goes out with deepest apologies to and admiration for the nine black students who first integrated the formerly all-white school system in Brookhaven, Mississippi, in 1967 — especially to the youngest of them, a fourth grader whom I taunted with these words. If I could only take them back…


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