Are We There Yet?
A World Made of Love!
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From page3: I started sniffing when Aunt Jemima approached me, as she greeted each child and kissed them on the cheek or head. I was braced for the strong whiff of skunk, when she leaned in to kiss me. I pulled back a little, remembering Aunt Mtrtle's warning. Nothing- no smells except the pancakes,(which she flipped all morning),and hot maple syrup, and sweet perspiration. Beads of sweat rolled down her brow, as she wiped it off with her handkerchief. I suddenly felt sorry for her.
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Starlight is raised by a family of racists, who actually believe that if she is gets too close to any Black people, their skin secretions will adhere to her skin, and she will never be able to rub it off! Aunt Myrtle, from northern Wisconsin, warnng her that the odor of the Black people is very pugnant, and will make her vomit, if she gets to close to the. Later in her teens, when the handsome Black boys followed her around town, her Father told her: "You will not be allowed to return home, if you ever bring one of them to the house." It was revealed at her Mother's funeral,that her Uncle LeRoy was a leader in the KluKlux Klan in the 1930's-60's. Starlight tells the sometimes humorous, insanely serious, and the eventual peace she made with the hate and fear that suirrounded her. She shares her redemptive tale of connecting with the the African-American people, in her 40 years of teaching across America.
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Starlight was 14yrs. old , when Sister Joseph Clair played Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream", speech in her Religion class, at St. Mary's 8th Grade class, in Mt. Clemens, Michigan. It was one year after the Great Rebellion in Detroit. Starlight vowed to herself, as she stared at the giant crucifix in the front of St. Peter's Church, that she would devote her life to His dream. Now, 54 years later, she implores her peers and any one who has ears, to please make the His Dream a Reality!!