I moved up north and was astonished at how invisible black people were. I went from living in a southern city, having black teachers, and black staff members, a

I moved up north and was astonished at how invisible black people were. I went from living in a southern city, having black teachers, and black staff members, and black waiters, and black managers, to living in a midwestern city where there was a definite black part of town and the white part of down, and rarely did they mix. It felt more culturally segregated than anything I experienced in the south.