"That's right, black people and brown people and all those minorities."
Except when Will said it he kind of stretched it out to say: mi nor i ties.
This got a real strong reaction. Marvin Lynn said "God damned right", even Ray and Wanda came on with a "right on brother." Everybody clapped when they said that.
Now Ms T had settled down in the porch rocker and still hadn't eaten her piece of chocolate cake, Marvin Lynn scooted up close, kind of humble like and asked her, "Ms T, if you don't want that, I'll be glad to take it off your hands."
Of course Wanda heard it (for some reason she was keeping a close eye on Marvin Lynn, being that she was still sitting in Ray's lap.) "Marvin! Marvin! Come over here! You get away from Ms T's cake!
Anyway, the conversation went on about how white folks had to pay all kinds of taxes because minorities didn't want to work like they did; and stuff like that.
Ms T just listened and finally said that plenty of minorities pulled their own weight and a lot of other people's weight too. "Look at the military" she said and they all agreed. But when she said, "Look at Obama, he's made it all the way up to be the President", all of a sudden everybody got real interested in lookin at the stars.
Uncle Will eased the tension by starting up again about astronomy and how much better it was than astrology, because astrology was only right about half the time.
Ms T was having none of it. "You can let off on that star stuff Will. This is nothing but bigotry."
"Bob let out a big sigh and said, "Thank God Ms T, I thought you was gonna call us all racists." That got a good laugh. And even Ms T giggled.
There was a time that passed and the more that happened, the mellower we got. Even me, and I was used to the stuff.
Then I guess, I decided to throw in my two-cents. And I started telling them how one of the girls at school had to go off pregnant and get it taken care of, up in Wichita Falls I think it was.
Oh my God, it was like throwing a live chicken into a buzz saw. In fact it got so hot I almost lost my high. Everybody and I mean everybody had an opinion on that, and they were all bad.
"Miranda said, "Any one of God's creatures that would take a knife and cut a little baby out of a mother's body ought to be shot and sent on his way to hell.
So then Ray pops up and tells everybody that all that stuff came about when they took prayer out of schools.
"Amen on that Ray, that and taking Christ out of Christmas." came out of nowhere."
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