A friend of mine who is white lives in White Bear Lake with her partner and adopted daughter, both African-American. In the past, when my friend was single and her daughter was very small, she didn't have any problem in White Bear Lake restaurants. But now that her daughter is a teenager and her partner is with her, frequently when the three of them go into a restaurant together, the waitress won't even come up the table.
I once quite smugly told her once that such a thing couldn't possibly happen in south Minneapolis. In light of the Market Barbecue story, I'm very embarrassed to remember having said this. Of any hundred first-hand stories on any given topic, it's likely that a few of them are exaggerated or downright false. But this is something I really don't understand about my fellow white folks: why is it that, when the story involves a white person or people behaving badly to nonwhites, so many white people immediately question the truth of the story? Why is this the very first possibility that they bring up? Rosalind Nelson Bancroft neighborhood TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
