Bielefeld, 2006
“We got along very well with the neighbors. Most of the friendships weren’t close, but there were no problems. The white people wondered why we wanted to live there. I remember a white woman asking, “Wouldn’t you rather live among your own kind?” I replied, “Could you perhaps tell me who ‘my kind’ is?” The question: What was it like with the children? Our children played with the Black neighbors’ children. Unlike the children of our Black colleagues, who perhaps wanted to keep their children separate from the Black neighbors’ children. One of our colleagues—a white psychologist—was interested in how our children viewed their color in comparison to the others. And he once asked Jeremy, “Are you white?” And Jerry laughed and said, “Are you green?” He thought it was a game.”