Ohio Joins the Confederacy.

Back in 1968, I was driving across the newly-open interstate highway in Ohio to get back to graduate school in Chicago following Spring break. I stopped to eat lunch at a diner on the highway, and right behind a group of older, Black women in their Sunday best also walked in.

The piece of shit redneck behind the counter took my order but kept walking past this group of Black church ladies without saying one word…