IN 1956 a black family moved into a previously all white town in new jersey. among the family's children was a thirteen year old boy who now, at sixty eight, remembers how his family was received and treated in the small middle class community. "the whole town was resentful that we had moved in, and broken the color barrier", he recalls.
when the family went to the public swimming pool, the parents were told that their son was not allowed to swim in the "all white" pool. the mother turned to her son, and told him to slip under the turnstyle, and get in the pool.
the kid was horrified, torn betweeen following his mother's instructions, and starting trouble. but he was more inclined to do as his mother instructed, so he went in.
soon a police officer approached the woman, and told her that she would have to get her son out of the pool. the lady replied to the officer "if you want him out, you get him out, and tell him why you're doing it."
the boy stayed in the pool, and the racial barrrier was down. the police had made a choice, a choice that saved a great deal of unpleasantness, kept the police, and was morally upright. in this instance, as is so often the case, the heros are the police.
you are simultaneously ashamed and proud of america after this story, and in a sense, this story is the story of america, a nation which makes huge and horrible mistakes, and then fixes them.
BB
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