Growing up in Federal Way, Washington it was a fairly mixed with all races. I spent all my school years in that city. I can remember playing sports on school teams and AAU, we were treated fairly everywhere and every one could recognize us. But as we got older and were allowed to hang out at night with our friends they, you could sense a difference the way people reacted to our friends. They were African American and had tattoos in High School, they had baggy and/or saggy pants, drove cars that had loud music and bass coming from them. People reacted differently to that situation. My sister and I would be one of the few white people hanging in the neighborhood “Appian Way” which was predominantly an African American section of town. There was
