I think I first realised how much this was the case when some newsmagazine (Newsweek?) ran a story on "hometowns" and a Black St Louisan wrote about a conversation she had with a White colleague who found it hard to believe they really shared a hometown when she reeled off a list of local attractions (Ted Drewes, Bevo Mill, etc.) and the author told her she'd never visited any of them. Then, of course, she gave a list of her hangouts and I'd never even heard of any of them, let alone visited them. (Dad's probably been to a few, however.)
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Date: 2014-08-15 12:07 am (UTC)I think I first realised how much this was the case when some newsmagazine (Newsweek?) ran a story on "hometowns" and a Black St Louisan wrote about a conversation she had with a White colleague who found it hard to believe they really shared a hometown when she reeled off a list of local attractions (Ted Drewes, Bevo Mill, etc.) and the author told her she'd never visited any of them. Then, of course, she gave a list of her hangouts and I'd never even heard of any of them, let alone visited them. (Dad's probably been to a few, however.)