Reply #24: Maybe I stopped at that gas station. I grew up in Watseka

[stanwyck]

know where that is? My parents, now deceased, continued to live there. My brother still lives there. I get back occasionally. So, I've been to Momence. Lots of racism in central Illinois, but more of a quiet racism while I was growing up. There were so few minorities in our communities that people didn't talk about race often. But, I remember the isolated comments, vividly.