One Reason I Left Rural America

Dear Editor, When future anthropologists read through the archives of the Monticello News in their quest to understand institutional racism from the perspective of a small, southern community, they will no doubt place a bookmark in the May 28th, 2019 letter to the editor entitled “White privilege – is it real?” Back in my days as an undergraduate at Florida State University, as part of my mandatory Marxist indoctrination process, the professors taught me an invaluable skill required for