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Privilege: When this white boy asked a black girl to date him in the ‘80s

In 1988, I had just turned 16, had recently started driving, and was attracted to a girl.

Well, I was attracted to several, but there was one in particular. She was relatively new to my sophomore class, and like so many new kids, she found herself testing the waters with different cliques of kids. Like me, she wasn’t exactly a nerd, nor…