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Originally Posted by mtairygirl
and might i add...he's one fine piece of white..chocolate!  |
Damn...er...straight! 
And he's a homie:
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Life hasn't always been easy for Packwood. He grew up in a poor area of Kansas City, Missouri, where he says he found himself gravitating to the black community at a young age.
Adolescence was rough. His mother's second marriage to a black man ended in divorce and family tension forced him to seek refuge with his best friend's family - who were black and middle-class.
The experience of living with his best friend's family had a profound effect on Packwood, who says he saw a "different side of black America."
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I'll wager he lived east of Prospect Avenue and north of 18th Street.
The northeast part of the pre-WWII city remained mostly white.
He may have lived as far south as 27th, though -- or maybe even further south: although most of the white folks had fled the neighborhood I grew up in by the time I reached grade school age, a few intrepid souls remained throughout my youth.
I have a hard time envisioning my home neighborhood as "poor," though.
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Last edited by MarketStEl : 05-16-2008 at 04:39 PM.
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