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I Never Spoke to a Black Man Until I Went to Mizzou
Jeff Huffman
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Jeff Huffman was a sophomore at Mizzou and the leader of a Christian band "Evidence". He had never talked to a black person until his sophomore year of college. The guy he met is named Terry. Terry had an amazing gift and could throw down a tune. Jeff is from Dexter, Missouri and graduated with roughly 160 people and they were all white. He grew up with no diversity and didn't know anything but white race and Christianity. Jeff realizes that he was sheltered while he grew up but not by his parents, it was because the series of events and decisions of the leaders in his small Missouri home town of Dexter.
My childhood was almost like his but not completely. I grew up in a community that is mainly whites as well but I had a few black friends growing up. Friends that I had met at school and didn't hang out with them outside of school. Not that I was racist or anything but my closest friends were my neighbors and actually they are still really good friends to this day. My parents haven't ever brought a black person or any person of another race to my house while I was growing up so I didn't think that it would be okay for me to ask if I could bring one of my black friends over to hang out. My parents aren't racist that I know of, I think they just prefer to hang out with white families and they mainly hangout with the neighbors that are on my street. We have never had a person of another race live in our neighborhood.
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