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demonstrations of respect for their Al in More recent As i have be come acculturated to Southern i no longer flinch when i hear How Are sir or have a Good these often melodic greetings have become a common part of my workaday and Are As Welcome to me As a lilting Breeze on a sweltering at my current at Duke University medical i arrive professionally at typically in tie and buttoned Down it has not escaped my attention that the people who most often Greet me with such deference Are differently at but not they Are the bus the the House the food and maintenance work ers and others who Are in the Lowe paying jobs of a medical they Are As i considered this and the Southern legacy of social i reflected that then their descendants might age and perceived social status often deter Well be enhanced by demonstrations of re ruined who would be called sir or Spect and kindness proffered from All of if the Downtrodden became so because they were diminished by those of higher social then their descendants might Well be enhanced by demonstrations of respect and kindness proffered from All of to be such greetings had always been reserved for the preach the school ones grand parents and so across racial race overrode All other consider the conventions of not too Many decades past found Black men and women being referred to As Jimmy or Bessie while White children in be called miss Susie and master a Southern Black adult would have been Foolhardy to refer to any White adult As anything other than sir or this brings me to my own personal Repa rations when i encounter other especially Black and even More especially if i see that they Are Blue Collar or working what i do is Good How Are i try to say this in a Way that is not in any Way not the least bit Over the but simply in a manner that conveys my re Spect for their dignity and it after such a simple thing to each time i do i am pleasantly responded to in a Way that brings me a Small measure of i have noticed that those who i address with this Courtesy seem to raise their Heads Ever More some might advocate that Good Man ners should be extended to who would argue but i think that misses the the Point of if the Downtrodden became so because they were diminished by those of higher social i Welcome opportunities to be part of that i know full Well that such Humble Ges Tures do not address the larg More contentious issues of what should be the moral and Ethi Cal obligations of a society that benefited so greatly from the servitude of and discrimination against a whole segment of its people it is a a Southern if you of i Long ago taught by a troubled adolescent to a once ill mannered William Meyer is a clinical social worker and director of training at Duke University medical he wrote this for the Raleigh news Tell us what you think stars and stripes welcomes your comments on editorials and columns that Are published in the and values letters on topics of importance in the lives of our All tetters must be and 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