By 1963 my ardor for the civil rights movement was already waning. I vaguely felt that the lunch-counter sit-ins were going too far. It was one thing to protest state discrimination, but another to encroach on private property and freedom of association. My own self-respect taught me not to go where I wasn’t wanted. If people chose to exclude me from their property, I respected their right to do so. Sorry, but in the case of blacks and the situation they faced in America in 1960, that kind of a statement is idiotic. When "free association" means you can't walk into any of the stores in the town, something has to give, period.
"When "free association" means you can't walk into any of the stores in the town, something has to give, period."
Something did give: our supposedly inviolable rights to do with our property as we see fit. We will regret this for eons to come.
Carolyn