Confronting my racist past
Although Mac Otts’ great great grandfather had run a plantation in Alabama, Mac ended up turning his back on the generations of racism in his family, and adopted a mixed race child
S. McEachin Otts - known as Mac - grew up in Greensboro, Alabama. His great great grandfather had slaves and a plantation there, but as Mac grew up he began to go against the racism he was used to and he adopted a mixed race child. Mac has written a book about his life called Better than them: The Unmaking of an Alabama Racist, published by NewSouth Books, Montgomery, Alabama.
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(Image: Mac Otts. Photo courtesy of Mac Otts.)
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