In the Spirit of Sankofa and the Truth!
LadyLC,
lol@my Daughter...I still don't eat there...oooohh weeee, lol, I hear you sweetheart, for real.
I have no memory of not being able to eat anywhere I wanted to. My parents educated us on the civil rights struggle. I would ask my grandparents question about "those days" but they didn't always want to talk about it.
I do remember an incident in the 80's at a local Dairy Queen. We had just moved to a suburb that was mostly white. Matter of fact we were the third black family on our street. My mother ordered food from the Dairy Queen and the man was racist. We had to wait forever for our food to come and I think our food was just thrown together when we finally got it. I was 9 or 10 at the time but I remember that my mother was angry about this and we never ate there again. I still live near that Dairy Queen and I still don't eat there.
I still blows my mind sometimes that there are things that my grandparents were not allowed to do when they were my age. But they held their head high and went on with life. I often wonder how many in my generation would act if those things we take for granted were taken from us and we had to live as my grandparents/parents had to live in the 50's......
LadyLC,
lol@my Daughter...I still don't eat there...oooohh weeee, lol, I hear you sweetheart, for real.