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In reply to the discussion: DUers, what did your dad do or say during your childhood that has influenced how you live [View all]pipi_k
(21,020 posts)1. He was an honest man. Don't ever take anything that doesn't belong to you, and if you borrow something return it. I learned that it was bad to rip people off.
2. He was an Atheist. Didn't say a whole lot in front of us kids, but I would often hear my parents talking when they thought we were asleep. Well, my sisters were...I wasn't. I guess my Atheistic views came from him.
3. It always bothered him, in the midst of Segregation, that white people would go out and sun themselves to a deep brown color, often darker than the skins of the people they hated. Hypocrisy, he said. Made sense to me...
And last, not that he ever said anything about it, but he was a voracious reader. Somehow he passed his love of reading on to me.
He was a complicated man...hard to understand, and at times he could be cruel, but when he wasn't, he was intelligent, generous, and funny as hell.
Thanks dad.
1925 - 2002