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Alex said “What did you say?”

I had said, “I don’t know how to get rid of this black scum.”

I was talking about the dirt under the gold metal strip between the red carpeting and the vinyl kitchen flooring.

We were renting from a Black/Hispanic couple in a very mixed race community outside D.C. i was a very ignorant person at that time.

Alex used to talk about “dancing with Dinroy” some wild night in the Carribean. Dinroy was a Black man. Alex said he looked like a prince.

Then I wound up on a psych ward in a devastated condition. After watching the Des’Ree, “Gotta Be” video on VH-1. Ian watched the whole thing happen. He was only about 15 months old.

I just completely cracked up.

At the hospital, I met a Nigerian man named Sylvester who helped to keep me safe.

The rest of the story has been told so many times.

I am a little more savvy these days.