Cain lived with this, fool
1960s Jacksonville, FL where gas stations had 2 drinking fountains and 3 restrooms, Men, Women and Colored.
“Cain lived with this, fool.”
I heard him (on Hannity, I think) tell the story of him and his little brother sneaking a drink, when no one was looking, from the White fountain, then drinking from the Black fountain. He smiled, then chuckled and said, “we both were surprised that the water tasted exactly the same, and wondered what the big deal (of separate fountains) was about!”
I am about 6 months older than Herman Cain and if he had lived in my small Missouri town growing up, we probably would have been in the same grade in school, not in the same school of course because black kids went to a different school.
We used text books until they were ragged, then we sent them to the "colored school" to use. The next town over from us had a public swimming pool that thoise same "coloreds" weren't allowed to use with one exception. They drained and cleaned the pool and refilled it about once a month or so and on the day prior to draining, they had a "coloreds only day". How demeaning is that?
I didn't think a lot about it when I was a kid, it wasn't until I grew up and got a conscience, that it bothered me a lot.