Ivan Ivanovich Renko
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Cleveland, United States |
| Introduction | Despite my Russian nom de plume, I was born a not-quite-poor black child in the not-quite-yet integrated South of the United States. My mother was a maid for rich white folks; my mother's mother was a maid for rich white folks; my father was a veteran of a segregated unit in WWII who worked like a galley slave to keep his family fed and sheltered; and my father's father was a big, rough-hewn self-reliant farmer from whom my father learned his work ethic. I became an engineer because in our day, that was what respectable Negroes did. Bad idea. |
| Interests | Politics, military history, beer (good and bad, though I prefer good), science, technology, comedy, history, and beer. |