This is on hour. So, congressman hill, what may made you wapiti want to write the book . Grew up knowing about hill but i had never been there vment my grand father said we had been there. We had a plantation and when the slaves were free he loved it so much they took it as their last name. As a seven or eightyearold kid in dallas going through desegregation because in 1973 dallas schools were still desegregated and there was a court order for busing so race was very much an important topic at that time in dallas. And so i was aware of that as a child and the idea that the were black members that were held as slaves just boggled by imagination. That became part of my identity having a family who fought in the civil war and had slaves and was part of the antibellium life was a big deal. I bragged about it. It wasnt unt till later in life when i became a journalist, educated and went to africa, i realized that myth that shaped my life so much that no one was examining it or questioning i
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