Can I get a hell yeah for Dale Hansen at WFAA-TV?

Here’s my favorite part:

I think I was 12 before I realized that the N-word actually wasn’t the first name of Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Elston Howard, and so many more.

My dad always referred to the black athletes, and any person of color he didn’t know that way, but he loved the Matthews family. Henry and Billie Matthews were ‘good people.’ The whole family was. My dad always said they were ‘different.’

The one black family he knew were ‘good people.’ All the others he didn’t know, they were the bad people. The ignorance in that reasoning, if you think about it long enough, will twist your mind, and it twisted mine.

Kids have to be taught to hate, and it’s our parents and grandparents, and our teachers and coaches, too, who teach us to hate. Kids become the product of that environment. I was, and they are.

(h/t Ruby)

Here’s a relevant song by Shawn Mullins: