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Sun, 28 December 2003 18:55

kevin

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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-

"Be excellent to each other, and, party on dudes"!

		I wanted to share this with you ....... By: kevin on Sun, 28 December 2003 18:55
		Re: I wanted to share this with you ....... By: jaman on Mon, 29 December 2003 00:07
		I can't even begin to imagine the heartache... By: smith on Mon, 29 December 2003 01:16
		Re: I wanted to share this with you ....... By: marc on Mon, 29 December 2003 09:49
		Re: I wanted to share this with you ....... By: jaman on Mon, 29 December 2003 10:16
		Re: I wanted to share this with you ....... By: marc on Mon, 29 December 2003 10:47
		Re: I wanted to share this with you ....... By: jaman on Mon, 29 December 2003 12:02
		Re: I wanted to share this with you ....... By: kevin on Mon, 29 December 2003 15:49
		Re: I wanted to share this with you ....... By: saben on Mon, 29 December 2003 16:18
		Re: I wanted to share this with you ....... By: marc on Mon, 29 December 2003 19:33
		Re: I wanted to share this with you ....... By: timmy on Tue, 30 December 2003 00:02
		Re: I wanted to share this with you ....... By: kevin on Tue, 30 December 2003 22:46
		Re: I wanted to share this with you ....... By: jaman on Tue, 30 December 2003 23:28
		Re: I wanted to share this with you ....... By: kevin on Tue, 30 December 2003 23:47
		Re: I wanted to share this with you ....... By: marc on Wed, 31 December 2003 00:33

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