It’s how the good Lord made me, and since He is good and He said His creation was good, my skin color must be nice! Back then we even called each other niggers, though everybody’s all up in arms about that word too. Seems a little silly to me. A word is just a word, to my way of thinking. One word’s as good—or as bad—as the other. What matters is who you are, not what folks call you. What we lived through back then, Katie and me, was a lot more important than what we were called. No better or no