A moment goes by, he sees some of the waitresses and waiters talking earnestly near the door. They split up, each going in their own direction. One of them walks back towards the rear of the building, and enters an office.
He walks back out a moment later with another man following, this one wearing a suit.
The man in the suit comes over to where the black man is quietly sitting,
"Hey you,"
He says, yanking the menu out of the man's hands,
"the colored section's on the other side of the kitchen! Get out of my restaurant before I have you arrested!"
He takes away the man's silverware, plate, and napkin, hands them to a waitress walking by and says with disgust,
"Throw those away, we can't use them now."
The colored man gets up, and walks out of the restaurant. He doesn't protest, he can't protest. There are laws saying he can't eat where white people eat. He was breaking the law, plain and simple.
This is a scenario we don't see very often anymore. Before African Americans became people, they were just property, scum, dogs, inferior. The purpose of colored laws was to keep them in their place. These laws were degrading and humiliating. No one cared about their effects because black people were not equal to white people.
It took years, but eventually the world had to come to the realization that all people are equal, no matter what race they are.
So I ask you, now that we are treating all people equally, why would any subsection of people qualify as inferior enough for us to pass laws that discriminate against them?
I don't care what your opinions are about homosexuality, but as AMERICANS, we should be ashamed that proposition 8 is progressing as far as it is.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinions and beliefs, that is another right we hold dear as Americans. However, those opinions should not give any of us the legal right to place ourselves on a superior level to anyone else. We are all equals, and we should never impose a law on someone unless we are willing to impose it onto everyone as a whole.
Does it make sense to make marriage as a whole illegal? No!
Any man and woman in America has the right to marry whoever they want to marry. Limiting the legal right for a gay or lesbian individual to marry whoever they want to marry is discrimination.
I'm not implying a slippery-slope scenario here. I'm not arguing this point on the basis that if we make gay and lesbian marriage illegal, suddenly American rights will crumble and black people will be made slaves. I am simply saying that American citizens have the right to be protected from discrimination. That means ALL American citizens, straight or gay.
We should be ashamed of the people who pushed us to consider proposition 8. Come on, America, where is our honor!?
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