“I was born in 1952 in Columbia, South Carolina during the Jim Crow Segregation era. South Carolina’s government was so Racist that my family could only live in Black neighborhoods and me and my siblings could only attend Black schools. When we went downtown to shop we couldn’t try on the clothes that we wanted to buy, and we couldn’t sit down and eat in white restaurants. We had to sit in the back of city buses. I saw the college students where my dad worked protesting local white businesses for not allowing us to shop in their stores which was located in our Black neighborhoods! The Racism was so much a part of my childhood that I began to think that it was normal to be treate…