The Year I was Born…

On January 14^th of the year I was born, George C. Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama. In his inaugural address he said " In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.!"

Lead by such great men as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and others, thousands and thousands of people fought for equal rights until President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law on July 2^nd, 1964. When signed, the bill also gave those same rights to all women.

Sadly, 45 years later, so many of the very people the Civil Rights Act was created for still choose to themselves to engage in and promote segregation. Such as the homosexual middle school that opened in Milwaukee, WI earlier this year. It's intention is to keep homosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals, transgenders (and the "confused") away from their heterosexual peers under the guise of safety from bullying.

Also on the side of segregation would be the folks taking part in the "Empowerment Experiment" in which black people vow to only "buy black". The notion that the solutions to the problems within the black community will be solved by once again being disengaged from the rest of the country are idiotic, and in my mind, an insult to the thousands who suffered and often died to rid us of such things as "black stores" and "white bathrooms".