Would you do business with a bigot? Let’s say you own the local dry goods company and one of your best customers doesn’t like minorities. He has never assaulted a minority, dangled one from a tree or burned a cross, however. Everyone in town knows he’s a white supremacist, yet he spends a couple of hundred dollars a week at your counter...
Uncle Dave gave us our first lesson in integration. When I was a little boy growing up in the 1960s my Aunt Ruth’s husband one day up and vanished. He left behind a wife and four children. Uncle Bill should’ve blended easily into Dad’s side of the family...