Fifty one years ago yesterday these four young men set a course of change in our country. Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair Jr., and David Richmond entered a Woolworth's Lunchroom in Greensboro NC and sat there waiting to be served. However at this point in US history segregation was law and this was a 'White Only' counter. They were never served AND they just sat there. The next day they did the same thing. The following day they did the same thing. Eventually news got out what these young men were doing, supporters came by the hundreds.Soon similar sit ins happened in different parts of the country. The threat of being arrested, beaten, or worse didn't deter these students from challenging segregation. By July Woolworths integrated its stores and lunch rooms.So lets remember these four who spurred a movement of equality that their country had lost site of. They became known as the Greensboro Four. Later Joseph McNeil is quoted as saying..."This is my country, I not only fought for it (he served in Vietnam) I fought for the chance to make it right." CHEERS and a grateful heart felt THANKS to these roll models who changed the course of history!!!
Then there is this lady.
Jane Kim. She is a city supervisor in San Francisco. Her family immigrated to the US in the early 70's. I wonder what the reason for the move from Korea? Could it be they came here for Freedom? Well her story is a success story and one like countless others who came here for a better life, found it and prospered and became involved in the great system of government we have here. She decided in her teens that the Pledge of Allegiance did not represent America and so she won't recite it. She says, is that the ideals it speaks of are not reality, specifically its conclusion, which says “with liberty and justice for all.”
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