#808 Food That Pleases, Food to Take Home- Anthony Grooms
Mary is lifted to the ceiling by the reverend Green’s sermon on civil rights. She has been seeing all the marches and sit-ins and speeches in the news and she wants in. She tries to recruit her friend Annie to take part. She is skeptical and doesn’t see how two people can do any good.
They walk past a diner they know to serve only white customers and it’s a place they despise the woman who runs the place. Now’s their chance. The walk in and sit down at the whites-only lunch counter and wait to get kicked out. Today however, the owner is in the hospital and her sister is visiting from up north. She is looking after her large, mentally slow son and she really doesn’t want any trouble.
Mary and Annie try to push the issue by telling her:
“We done come all the way from Washington, D.C. We are part of President Johnson’s civil rights committee. And we gone report you to the Doctor Martin Luther King.”
Of course all that is a lie, and the fill-in server just gives up and tells them to serve themselves. Nothing is working like they thought it would. With nobody else involved, and no other customers, there is no one there to see what went down. There is a reason they call it “organizing.” Annie feels bad that she upset this poor woman who is clearly struggling to tale care of her problem son by herself…
“Things were complicated, far more complicated than she thought.”
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