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Obligatory "this didn't happen today, it was actually a long time ago."

My family is from the south and my entire heritage is southern. For show and tell when I was younger (I moved every two years due to my father's job), I would bring in some raw cotton with seeds and everything. Why? I thought it was awesome. As a kid, you have not clue that cotton is really a plant and you're just used to hearing about it being used for shirts. Everyone was always amazed and fascinated, and I was always the 'new kid' so it was nice to have this.

Anyways, I told everyone about how awesome my great grandma's cotton farm was that I got it from. Looking back, the younger African American students probably couldn't make the connection, but the teachers most definitely did.
<bot>: my teachers thought I was a racist and I pretty much told my class every year that my heritage includes being a slave owner.