Taken for granted.
Today is a holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. I will be celebrating this holiday by going to the race track. This is the way it is during the season and in some ways my season. The weather is cooler, the windows are open most of the time things are good. Saturday I was able to visit with co-workers for coffee and donuts and hear how things are going for people retired or almost retired. Sunday, I got up and went to church. Then off to the races again. Chasing a pick 6 worth about $35,000 takes nerves of steel or partners.
The sermon Sunday was about Rosa Parks and a bus boycott. How would you like being subject to arrest for finding a seat on a bus. The methodology of filling bus seats would require a black person to give his seat to a white person if the bus was full. The bus driver might call the police to enforce this practice and rule.
Dr. King organized the bus boycott. If you weren't able to sit on the bus, you would have to walk to work or the store. The boycott was successful and the idea of civil rights in transportation, public accommodations, education, and voting right was given a big push forward.
I almost never go through the drive thru when I eat fast food. Too often in the old south they would feed you but the food you ate came out the back door or a hotel or motel was able to deny service to people of color.
I always took many rights for granted. Today is a day for remembering. I'm glad the arc of history seems to be bending towards justice, but it requires vigilance.
The sermon Sunday was about Rosa Parks and a bus boycott. How would you like being subject to arrest for finding a seat on a bus. The methodology of filling bus seats would require a black person to give his seat to a white person if the bus was full. The bus driver might call the police to enforce this practice and rule.
Dr. King organized the bus boycott. If you weren't able to sit on the bus, you would have to walk to work or the store. The boycott was successful and the idea of civil rights in transportation, public accommodations, education, and voting right was given a big push forward.
I almost never go through the drive thru when I eat fast food. Too often in the old south they would feed you but the food you ate came out the back door or a hotel or motel was able to deny service to people of color.
I always took many rights for granted. Today is a day for remembering. I'm glad the arc of history seems to be bending towards justice, but it requires vigilance.
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