[Mama_Bear]

Don't go MB. I'm on a roll here.

LOL. Well, keep on rollin'. I'll stick around for awhile.

That photo tells such a story!

I remember traveling through the south on one of our trips across country. I must have been seven or eight. Coming from the north, I had never in my life seen a "whites only" sign. I was dumbfounded. I distinctly remember asking my mom why only white people could sit at the restaurant counter and thinking how I would feel if I was told I could not go somewhere because I was different. I remember thinking, as a child would, how much it would hurt my feelings to be treated "different". That experience is burned into my memory.

[WVNan]

The thing is though, MB, as a child I would have been sitting right there on that porch with those men listening to their tales and laughter without a second thought. I didn't know anything about "whites only" signs. That was just my world. It was filled with people and places just like that picture.