I LOOOOVVVVEEEDDDD this show!!! I wanna read the book it was based on called "Daybreak of Freedom".
I suspect that some of you all are so young--meaning you were born either in late 1970's early 1980's that your parents were too young themselves to comprehend the whole issue.
Whereas, I'm sooooo old, that my folks were the ones that MARCHED with King and his collegues. My folks were the ones that experienced first hand what segregation was like. My folks were the ones that GOT sprayed by the water hoses, beaten down by the police batons and had dogs chasing after them. So, basically, I can ask my folks what was it like without difficulty.
I asked my mom and she said during her ordeal (she didn't get arrested for disobedience--but my dad did--that's a whole 'nother story), she told me stuff that I couldn't begin to fathom since I was a post-civil rights baby.
Whereas, most of you guys probably never seen overt, massive, full-on, outright racism with colored bathrooms, massive anti-bus picketing. Now, you all have enjoyed the fruits of affirmative action and are watching it being dismantled. So that's our battle we must fight.
You, waaay under 21 year olds outta ask your grandparents about it 'cuz they are probably my folks age or a little older and could tell you some stories... Write your grandparents whilst in college, they'll truly enjoy it and they may write you back! Then they might slip you a little sumthin'-sumthin' in the way of $$$
That's what I did and I gotta buy me some McDonald's Happy Meal on those days.
[This message has been edited by AKA_Monet (edited March 05, 2001).]