Hi David, I grew up in the Neighborhood you were talking about in "Show Me a Hero" and my Great-Uncle was one of the people who was pushing de-segregation in Yonkers in the early 1980's and first I want to thank you for giving me history about my neighborhood I did not know of. My parents moved there in 1988 and I grew up in a diverse neighborhood and LOVED it. I thought that was what ALL of America was when I was a kid and had a culture shock and went to school and realized everyone was White like me instead of all different races like my neighborhood. I am so happy to have experienced this at such a young age because I feel like it caused me to not accept racism in any form the older I got.
I was just wondering, what inspired you to write a Mini-Series about that? It was so great to see how far Yonkers has come since then but also deeply upsetting to know that people in my own neighborhood were so adamantly against this! It shed a new light on some of the "sweet old neighbors" I had and why some of them were so reserved when their grandchildren would play with the kids from the 'projects' down the street.
Just always been curious about why you made such a GREAT mini-series about something that may be a 'norm' in other places even to this day.
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Hi David, I grew up in the Neighborhood you were talking about in "Show Me a Hero" and my Great-Uncle was one of the people who was pushing de-segregation in Yonkers in the early 1980's and first I want to thank you for giving me history about my neighborhood I did not know of. My parents moved there in 1988 and I grew up in a diverse neighborhood and LOVED it. I thought that was what ALL of America was when I was a kid and had a culture shock and went to school and realized everyone was White like me instead of all different races like my neighborhood. I am so happy to have experienced this at such a young age because I feel like it caused me to not accept racism in any form the older I got.
I was just wondering, what inspired you to write a Mini-Series about that? It was so great to see how far Yonkers has come since then but also deeply upsetting to know that people in my own neighborhood were so adamantly against this! It shed a new light on some of the "sweet old neighbors" I had and why some of them were so reserved when their grandchildren would play with the kids from the 'projects' down the street.
Just always been curious about why you made such a GREAT mini-series about something that may be a 'norm' in other places even to this day.
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