Back in the '80s, there were two television shows featuring black children adopted by well-off white families. They were two of the most popular sitcoms of all-time; Diff'rent Strokes and Webster.
My childish daydreams would take me to where they were, away from the economically depressed ghetto that I called home. In a way, the crippling programming led me to surmise that my salvation from a life of poverty lay in the hands of white folks. Of course, I've outgrown that childish, colonized mindset.
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