Word: colored
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...grainy black-and-white photograph, taken 30 years ago, captures the fear in David Richmond's eyes on the day he dared to cross the color line. He's the one on the left, the skinny kid in the trench coat, standing beside three other young black men. That winter day in 1960, those four college students broke the segregation barrier by taking seats at F.W. Woolworth's downtown lunch counter. The sit-in shook the sleepy North Carolina city and ignited a nationwide movement to topple Jim Crow's walls. But Richmond says all he felt that...
Because Greensboro, like the rest of the nation, finds itself face to face with a more intractable form of separation that is insidious but not illegal. The laws that opened restaurants and rest rooms have not changed minds, and that is precisely where the color line is drawn these days...
...white. But Cathedral of His Glory, a young church whose membership is 30% black and 70% white, is an exception. Maintaining the mixture requires leadership from the top and constant effort to involve blacks. "We have to explain we are prejudiced," says Pastor C. Paul Willis. "We are not color- blind. But it's not a prejudice of hate...
...certainly does. And what it reflects pains Jim Schlosser, a veteran reporter on race for the Greensboro News & Record. "In the 1960s," says Schlosser, "when we talked about a color-blind society, we thought we'd party together, we'd live on the same block. But maybe our expectations were unrealistic. Maybe we are a separate society." Perhaps whites have been too paternalistic, too insensitive, too impatient. Maybe blacks have been overly sensitive, too defensive, too race conscious. Both sides are paralyzed by confusion; neither fully understands the other...
...what do you want for $30.74? And what, eventually, will you get? An anti- Disney World, as far removed in spirit from the Magic Kingdom as gray (the dominant color) is from glitz. Both parks have strolling characters, but instead of Mickey and Minnie, Universal has Frankenstein, Marilyn Monroe, Beetlejuice. Both places will sell you plenty of food, but Universal's is spicier, tastier, more sophisticated. In movie-ratings terms, Disney's rides are G (for Gentle), Universal's PG (for Pretty Grisly...