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"For most of her childhood, Ramona Burton didn’t notice other people treating
her differently. Born in the city of Evanston, Illinois, the 73-year-old was
raised by hard-working, loving parents: her mother was a primary school
teacher; her father, among several jobs, was an employee at the Oscar Mayer
meat company.
But as Burton grew up, she began to connect the dots. One time, she remembers,
the family ordered a meal at a restaurant but they were told they could only
have take out, not eat the food inside. Then, as a high school student, she was
suspended for a day or two just for running down the hall too quickly,
something that never happened to white students. Later on, she found out that
she and her siblings had to be delivered in a Chicago hospital — Black babies
weren’t allowed to be born in Evanston’s. “I realized there was a different set
of rules for caucasians and for Blacks,” she says.
That prejudice against the Black community was deeply entrenched across the
country as Burton grew up. Some say that while aspects of equality have
improved and discrimination has reduced, much of it remains. But in a
pioneering effort to begin the healing process for decades of racial injustice,
last year Evanston became the first city in the US to offer Black residents
reparations."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
