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Jacob and Daniel hitchhiking around the USA

While we lived in USA I did not want Daniel to end up racist as most white Americans.  So I took my son, 2 years old, out hitchhiking 16.000 miles around in all the big black ghettos. My black friends had never seen a white child in their neighborhoods before, so they spoiled him with ice-cream, cakes and overwhelming love. Since the messages children get before three years old shapes them for the rest of their lives I was certain that my positive vaccine would keep him free of racist thinking the rest of his life. 18 years later he hitchhiked along the same route on his own.

 

Jacob and Daniel hitchiking around the USA

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