Pastor With No Answers

378 - Christmas For Me and My Friends ("the Black Ones" Part II)

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Twenty-seven years since the last time they hung as friends (and classmates) at James Island High, Stoy Prioleau, Antonio "Hype" Seabrook and Joey Svendsen caught up on episode 361 - My Childhood Friends [the Black ones].  As kids, they never processed together things like racism, privilege, systemic racism, what it's like to be black, and what it's like to be white.  As adults, they reflect on their childhoods with a lot more insight and life experience.  In this episode, the conversation continues as they reflect on being a kid at Christmas as a middle class white kid with dad at home and as a black kid growing up with a single mother trying to keep food on the table.   Joey rakes it in annually while Stoy and "Hype" tell some "Christmas morning heartbreak" stories.  It was pretty common in the black community for their peers to get no gifts at all on Christmas.  What was it like as a black kid, when all the best toys (G.I. Joe, He-Man) you play with are depictions of