Comments on: Day 118: The Books from Beyond

By: Ginny McKinney

Ginny McKinney — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 15:02:18 +0000

In reply to Carol Avery. Indeed. ❤️

By: Carol Avery

Carol Avery — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 14:11:26 +0000

I enjoyed your story today so much. I felt the same way about white privledge. (I had no idea what that was.) Isn’t that how everything lives? How ignorant I was, as are most white folks. After seeing the injustice to our brothers and sisters of color, I felt I need to get educated. I plan on finding those books too. We all have pain, and we all bleed red.
BTW- My mom was from West Virginia too. To get to the old house, we had to ford Paleys Creek, go past the one-room schoolhouse. They did not have a plumbed house. My Maternal Great Grandma raised nine kids after they were orphaned. She made soup with the weeds she found along the roadway. Mom got married at age 16, just to escape from The Holler. Sound Familiar?

By: Ginny McKinney

Ginny McKinney — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 13:04:01 +0000

As Maya Angelou said, “We do what we know. And when we know better, we do better.” ❤️

By: Sue Clifton

Sue Clifton — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 12:26:01 +0000

I am anxious to hear “the rest of this story”….after you read the books. I’ve read one of these…a long long time ago but think I’ll read them both while you are reading. I lived through the 50’s…was ten when Emmett was murdered in the County next to my home…remember well how it was and remember knowing so much was wrong with the “closed society” of Mississippi. Love the mystery, too.