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Memories of Racism As Obama Accepts the Nomination

Written by: Lea Lane 8/28/2008 8:40:59 PM

-- Sitting in the back of the bus in Miami Beach in the 1950s, stared at by whites in the front, smiled at wearily by Negroes in the back.
---Drinking from the “Colored” water fountain at Rexall’s drugs on Lincoln Road in the ‘50s, and realizing that the water tastes the same as the water from the “Whites Only” fountain.
---Leading an orientation group of black students integrating the University of Florida in 1965. Getting heckled from white students, as we pass.
-- Teaching and tutoring the first black teens at Marietta High School, in Marietta Georgia, a formerly segregated high school, in 1966. Realizing that the textbooks the students had previously studied from at Lemon Street school were published in the 1940s.
-- Befriending the only black teacher at Marietta High. She is a lovely woman who was secretary to Gone With the Wind author, Margaret Mitchell. She tells me to consider the consequences of having lunch with her.
-- Working to integrate my white-flight neighborhood in a southern section of Atlanta, in 1967. Having tea at the home of Dr and Mrs. Benjamin Mayes, he a beloved president of Morehouse College. Meeting Andrew Young, later to become mayor of Atlanta, and other neighbors who worked alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. They are ostracized by most whites in the area.
-- Crying in San Antonio is 1968 upon hearing that King was assassinated. My husband is at officers training at Ft. Sam Houston, about to ship off to Vietnam. We have an infant son. I realize that most of the fighting soldiers are black.
-- Giving up on racial progress in America

But, now 40 years later, comes the promise of change!
 




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