he said it smugly in a way. he said now maybe some of the tea partiers, some of the people might understand what we re talking about. i grew up in a seattle area, small farming town. i didn t see op regulation. the first time i heard segregation was in the deep south. i heard the white people and it s like we re all of a sudden in a 1950s bad movie? what the hell? it was bizarre to me. if you think about it, dr. king when he was a young boy, my father played with the white kids in the neighborhood. they were very close. it took the white parents to say to their children you can t play with them anymore. they re colored. and then the freedom rise of 1961, remember the turmoil