public service announcement

[chiranka]

Just as a head's up to everyone--

If you just so happened to grow up during the time of the American Civil Rights Movements of the 1960s, your (white) family hiring a black maid is not something that would be considered revolutionary by any means. You are not Rosa Parks. You also being seated once in the "coloreds" section with hard chairs and no

Comments

[cenee]

Interesting. What spurred that?

[alva_michael]

I'm bigger than Rosa Parks.

In more ways than one.

[xuenay]

But I always though I was Rosa Parks. :(

Ah well, I guess I'll just have to resort to being Napoleon like everybody else, then.

[aerothorn]

I thought having a black made was supposed to be UN-progressive?

Our family has one and it would creep me out (minorities doing menial labor for us just does not feel right), except that she's more of a family friend and my parents mainly employ her just because she needs the work, not because they couldn't do cleaning themselves.