URBANNA — I was touched last week by the letter of the young girl at St. Clare Walker Middle School who felt rejected because of her “brown skin.” It triggered the grandmother in me along with memories of my childhood growing up in Vermilion, Ohio, many years ago.
She mentioned the racial divide. Yet there are many causes of division among people and most of us are caught in the grips of some of them during our lives. I was caught in such a trap myself as a young person and although not racial, it was the divide between labor and management which is just as bitter, especially during labor disputes and strikes.
I also ruminated as a young girl wondering why I had to bear the grief of such division simply because I had been born in a family that owned a business that employed many of the people in the area. And yes, some people took their resentments out on an innocent young child simply because of her last name.
