Just over forty years ago there were some young black men and women that challenged to sit in "Whites Only" diners, refusing to move, asking only to be serviced like everyone else. When they refused young white men and women ridiculed them. Some went as far pouring condiments, drinks, and food on them, and in extreme cases violence was inflicted against them. It's amazing how far away those days seem in the face of a present where the people of this country voted to elect the first Black-American President in our nation's history. How, when this country asked for a new direction it was greeted with the greatest change we've ever experienced.
And yet, there is still staunch discrimination in state that has always stood for the kind of change that won the Presidential election. The latest minority to fall under the boot heel of oppression is the Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender Community. To see a law that symbolized a positive new direction for California, overturned by people that voted for "hope," for "change," is something that truly breaks my heart.
I think of the words that Martin Luther King Jr. spoke many years ago, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere," and can't help to find some irony in the fact that as we come to an event that shows us moving beyond one injustice, we find that we are still, very much, stuck in another.
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