I bumped into a couple African Americans in a Safeway line the other day.\u00a0 All three of us were looking at a magazine cover with Barack Obama’s family on the cover.\u00a0\u00a0 As the line moved and I turned forward, one of the men behind me said, "Wow, it still hasn’t hit me," and the other said, "Yeah, I know, I can’t believe it either".\u00a0 I couldn’t help but smile.<\/p>\n
Then the first man said "Yeah, and the big thing is, it isn’t the big story—" And his friend jumped in and said, "No, Proposition 8 is. And when that fails in the courts, they’re going to look at it, and say, California, which is so liberal, didn’t pass it twice … so maybe that will make ‘them<\/em>‘ think twice."<\/p>\n I was dumbfounded, and had bought my pound cake and mouthwash and walked out of the store before I could think of an adequate comeback: "Did getting turned away from one or two schoolhouses make the civil rights movement stop?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 And this isn’t going to go away either."<\/p>\n <\/p>\n -the Centaur<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I bumped into a couple African Americans in a Safeway line the other day.\u00a0 All three of us were looking at a magazine cover with Barack Obama’s family on the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,1],"tags":[10,29,33,5],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-uncategorized","tag-politics","tag-pound-cake","tag-the-righteous-fetishist","tag-we-call-it-living","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3865,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/3865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}