I grew up in Southern Nevada. From a very young age I was taught to treat all people with respect. I saw from my parents and grandparents that they treated all people alike. I noticed this mostly with people of influence; people that had money or were in leadership/powerful positions. My parents treated them just like they treated everyone else. Like normal people that needed to eat and sleep and use the bathroom, just like every other human on earth. All were alike to my parents. We never talked about race and we didn’t apply stereotypes. My parents responded to people’s behavior, not to some uncontrollable characteristic. I grew up doing the same. At school I was only interested in having fun. I had to get good grades because I knew that’s what my parents expected, but otherwise I just wanted to play games and have fun. In Las Vegas in the late seventies and early eighties there weren’t a lot of black people in the schools I went to, but there were some and I treated them j...