Posted by Lou Pilder on February 23, 2003, at 10:30:22
In reply to Re: Would rather... » JohnV, posted by NikkiT2 on February 22, 2003, at 8:35:29
NikkiT2,
You wrote,[...I don't understand, if someone is unhappy by this site being here...it is easier to walk away and find someplace else...].
When I was a child in the late 40's, there was a dept. store that expelled black people from their lunch counter. I witnessed them being harrased and clubbed by police because they refused to leave and demanded to be allowed to eat at the counter. I heard the manager yell at the black people to [...why don't you go to another lunch counter, your just a bunch of trouble makers...]
I saw one beaten women rise up off the floor and said back to the manager, {...I am a justice maker, not a trouble maker... I have a right to eat here just as much as the white people do...].
The dept. store refused to allow black people to eat at the lunch counter and there was protest and the dept. store closed.
Some people put justice above the easier way, which would be to go to another place.
Lou
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