FAMILY MYTHOLOGY
My “Wonder Years” Were Dangerous AF
Life was treacherous for a ten-year-old Black kid in 1968's Deep South — but not for the reasons you might think.
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7 min readOct 16, 2021
When I watched the first episode of ABC’s reboot of The Wonder Years, the show revived many childhood memories. Since I was a kid in 1968, the year the reboot was…