.....breathing secondhand smoke, being subject to unfair dairy pricing, and not being able to mime {or lap dance}, though they are all tragic, tragic injustices, are not quite as bad as the systematic segregation of public transportation based on skin color. And while fighting for your right to lap dance and mime and breathe just regular pollution is a very fine, very American idea, it is not quite as brave as being middle-aged black woman in Alabama in 1955 telling a white man she's not giving him her seat despite the fact that the law requires her to do so.
( Sarah Vowell )
[ The Partly Cloudy Patriot ]
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