Senior Moments: Some early lessons in prejudice and bigotry

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Patricia Bunin writes the Senior Moments column.

I was in the fourth grade at Willard Elementary School in Norfolk, Virginia, when a classmate uttered this. He had only just learned that I was Jewish. Jews were a small minority in my suburban town in the 1950s, and even smaller at my school. I was the only one in my class.

But when I returned to school after the holiday antisemitism hit me squarely in the face. Only I didn’t realize it at the time. And so I learned at an early age, how it felt not to be included. At an age when I so desperately wanted to be included that, for a brief moment, I was grateful just to be tolerated.

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