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This is a bit of writing done by Jim Forbes the Pastor of Riverside Church.
An 'inter-faith' church in New York City.

Jim grew up as the son of a black minister in a Baptist Chrch in the south.

One day, at the local Woolworths department store he sat down at the counter of the diner inside the store. This was the first time blacks had been allowed to sit at the counter with whites. As he sat down, a white woman who had just been served her food got up from her chair and quickly left the store. When he arrived back at home he wrote this:


"Why did she move when I sat down?

Surely she could not tell so soon that my Saturday bath had worn away, or that savage passion had pushed me for a rape.

Perhaps it was the cash she carried in her purse.

She could not risk a theft so early in the month.

And who knows that on tomorrow t'would fall her lot to drink her coffee from a cup my darkened hands had clutched?

So horrible was that moment, I too should have run away, for prejudice has the odor of a dying beast.

Whether racist or rapist, both fall in the savage class.

And the greatest theft of all is to rob one's right to be."

-Jim Forbes-



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