Understanding my father’s racial past: They called him nigger and killed his neighbor
6 min readJun 19, 2020
In the early seventies, Dad lived next door to a Black woman who went missing in Lake City, S.C. He doesn’t remember much about her, only her penchant for drinking and the White man she was sleeping with.
Sometime after her disappearance, her body was found in the woods, several miles outside of town. She had been…
