Corwin CJ Moneyway Johnson reflects on growing up in a predominantly Black neighborhood, then encountering different cultures in college. He talks about raising a son who plays sports and doesn't see color, and how those experiences shaped his views on race and culture.
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You know that you say that your parents actually raised you in the neighborhood so that you can, you know, uh, experience these type of things and just see a different culture and see how things, you know, are just different on the other side. You know, I was thinking about this question earlier, you know, uh, and me personally, like, where I grew up, like you say, you, you've been to Gary, uh, yeah, we didn't grow up— I didn't grow up around a lot of white people, you know what I'm saying? So It was a different experience when I went to college and then, you know, now it's a mix, you know, it's a mixed race and everything. But yeah, man, you know, like, like, like right now, like something like you saying now, I think about my son, like he plays sports, he plays basketball and he don't know, he don't know what that is, you know, as far as racism or whatever. He don't, he know that he's a black male, but he don't see color like that. Right. Because he plays with a lot of kids, you know, different nationalities. So that's something like you say, man,