Sotomayors

CONFLICT CORNER: Sotomayor proves we're making progress, but...

by Wingspan Seminars on Feb 16, 2010

As we approached the city limits, he would take over the wheel from my mother because she would refuse to say, “Yes sir’’ if stopped by any white person, or if she had to stop at a gas station. He knew he had to do the talking and couldn’t allow any of us to get out of the car.  Fast forward 25 years. Though we knew we’d miss our neighbors in Richmond Heights, my husband, children and I were excited about moving to a bigger house in Kendall.  Initially, there was no way of knowing that we were the first black people to move into the immediate neighborhoods.  But it did not take long to find out what it meant…to at least some of our new neighbors. Awakened in the middle of the night not long after moving in, we heard a very loud noise and felt some unusual movement.  Ellis and I ran outside to find that pieces of our large cement mailbox were on our front porch.  The mailbox was originally on the edge of our property, about 25 yards away from...Read More >>