Grandaddy gave carp to the darkies.

Clay Underwood,
San Diego, CA.

My grandfather, born 1890’s, was an avid fisherman. My brother and I fished with him in rural north Alabama when we spent summers there in the 1960’s. If grandaddy caught a carp he would give it to one of the black families he knew (he called blacks “darkies”). We were white. I was reminded of this scene from the past when I saw a piece on NPR today about carp in the bathtub.