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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  To be honest, I love the homes in Lorton.  OH, & by the way, we are AA.  I guess I'm looking for a needle in a haystack :D [/quote]I am not gay, but I am black, I grew up in northern Va and I'd worry about that also.  It was a long time ago, but I clearly remember being taught that the civil war was about states rights and that slaves were obviously better off under slavery - the proof was that they didn't move after slavery ended.   :shock:  I just didn't know enough to question these things.  Also routinely saw confederate flags, even Jefferson Davis highway bugs me.  I remember the first time I was called a nigger.  A lot of time has passed, but I just wouldn't want to live there.[/quote]

was this the 60s?[/quote]Sadly, no.  I'm sure that a lot of this has changed (although even here, discussions about the civil war will have people saying that it wasn't about slavery - I always think that they must have grown up in VA).  I just remembered something else that bugs me as an adult but I didn't question as a kid.  I was (and am) a total nerd, pretty geeky, always did great in school and on standardized tests.  Schools track kids pretty early.  In my school you had to be invited to take the GATE test by a teacher.  I am assuming your parents could refer you also, but mine had no clue how to navigate that system; they probably knew nothing about it.  You got invited (or not) to take the test in 2nd grade and then that was your track.  I wasn't invited.  I had a sixth grade teacher that took an interest in me and she made the test happen, so I finally got in.  As a high school student I was usually the only black kid in the honors classes, with the exception of one biracial girl.  I would estimate the school was at least 25% black, so why not more black kids in those classes?  In the end I've turned out fine. Ended up going to Ivy League college and I am in the first generation in my family to go to college.  I'm sure a lot has changed (look at the election results, for example) but the whole idea of living in VA leaves a bad taste in my mouth.  I do remember the first time I was called that word.  Some kids in my neighborhood were taunting me with a song: jingle bells, that n***** smells, jingle all the way...[/quote]

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