By Greg Williams, the new UC President. What a remarkable, harrowing, touching, and inspiring life this guy has led! His improbable story: born to an Italian-American father and southern belle mom and raised in Virginia in a town fraught with racial tension, until his charming but alcoholic and abusive father ran his restaurant into the ground. After his mother left and the family touched bottom, his father moved Greg and his brother to live with relatives in Muncie, Indiana - BLACK relatives, because the father was an African American passing as white and the formerly white Greg was now a very white African American, scorned by both sides of his heritage. How he suffered, coped and ultimately triumphed is a lesson in American racial attitudes - and the role played by his "truly mother" Dora is deeply moving. VERY highly recommended.
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