Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Columnist for the Record When I was a little girl and afraid of butterflies (of all things), my dad would comfort me with “Caroline, he’s more afraid of you than you are of him.” I thought of that today when I saw a Facebook post that said “White people are scared of black people. Black people are afraid of white people being afraid of them.” We’ve seen that time and time again lately — for instance, in the shooting of Michael Brown, a black teenager, by a member of a police force that was found to be profoundly racist. Brown...
Growing up, I always wanted to be the kind of person who read the New Yorker. These days, I devour it. I’ve been reading it for a few years, in fact, but I resisted bragging about it. Until now. You see, as a twelve-year-old girl, I equated it — and several other magazines and book titles — to the trappings of sophistication and worldliness. And young Caroline, from small-time Beaumont, Texas, perpetually clad in unflattering private school garb, wanted more than anything to be glamorous and sophisticated. Sitting on the e...
