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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Class of 1989 here.

I vividly remember being auctioned off in a “freshman slave day” back in 1984 or 1985. It was a fundraiser type of thing.

I think there’s a twist on this where seniors are the ones who are auctiones.

This was in Ohio back in the mid-1980s.

Wondering if it was common.[/quote]

Class of 1993. Also Ohio. Suburb that was full of elitist, racist white people--of course. I was a freshman in 1989 and I remember joining a discussion about Freshman Slave Day...and then two days later, feeling really uncomfortable and sort of guilty about even discussing it as though it were a great idea. The memory of that discussion still bothers me--and I had completely forgotten the context until you posted. Everyone in my high school was asleep about these issues in the 90s..except one of the only two black guys in my school--he was great--he'd pace the floor of our art class and insist we were all racist--we were so asleep and clueless we couldn't/wouldn't see what he meant. [/quote]

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