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Rosa Parks a pioneer of the civil rights movement, just for wanting to be treated with dignity on a public bus.
ReplyDeleteMy dad was based at Fort Polk Louisiana while serving in the US Army from 1955 to 1956. The abuse he witnessed in Louisiana against black people was an eye opener for him. Like many other white Americans, he never realized how bad it was assuming no one would put up with it in civil society. In the South society was not so civil, examples:
Going to a department store in Shreveport to buy his mother a gift and being served ahead of several black women who had to wait for whites to be served first. When my father asked the cashier about the situation she told him, "Sir you're not from the South are you? In the South we keep certain people in their place." Needless to say, my dad left in disgust as most descent people would.
Witnessing an elderly black man made to walk in a rain filled gutter by a group of white men on the sidewalk for their racist kicks.
Most people would probably get their ass kicked by their own father or even their grandfather for treating any elderly person like that.
Going to a public restroom in Louisiana for the first time.
White and colored signs on the doors, in his naivete my dad assumed they were instructions for a painter. He went into the colored restroom and was promptly told to leave by a black man who feared he would get in trouble if my dad was in there.
For my dad the worst part was the complete sense of helplessness and shame of not being able to do anything about these situations.
My dad was told by his sergeant, it's the South and you have watch your back when it comes to the race issue, people have been harmed and killed.
And to think some Americans want to go back this insanity, because it was so much better in the "good old days". As my dad told me from his experience the fifties weren't so nifty. -Rj
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ReplyDeleteRj - Thank you for sharing that story. What an eye-opener.
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