Two days ago, while walking on Main Street in downtown Greenville, South Carolina, my wife and I ran into a couple named Tina and Bubba who were likewise taking in the scenery. We stopped to talk to them only for a few minutes to turn into a half-hour conversation. We told them that we were here to visit and that we are considering moving to Greenville; they told us that they are from South Carolina originally and recommended places for us to check out and restaurants to eat at.
At a certain point, Tina started to tell me about her life experiences and the empath in me immediately sensed that she was talking from a place of injury. She conveyed the hardships she endured as a “black” woman in the South and the pains she inherited from her grandparents who lived during the height of Jim Crow and were regularly accosted by the Klu Klux Klan. As she expressed the agonies that still haunt her to this day, she kept saying “I am a scarred woman”....continued...
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