The Negro Motorist
More history from an all but forgotten era. I find it fascinating that it was inspired by similar publications for Jews, given the generations of sometimes friendly, sometimes strained relationships between those communities but their shared experience of routine discrimination in that era.
(This item cross-posted to Dean’s World.)
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It must be quite nice in Dean’s World where Green’s book is nothing but a novelty of a long lost era. But here in the real world of being a minority in America such guides still exists, and are being added to. I certainly have my list of local business that I will not use due to their discrimination, and I have friends that always want to compare their list to mine when we get together. There is one restaurant that every time I have gone there I’ve found something in my food, from a piece of chewing gum spread on the plate under the food to rocks to what looked like spit. When I complained to the manager all he said is that maybe I was the problem. I was talking to my cousin in Tucson last weekend. She was saying that a list is growing there on businesses and areas to stay away from, or they need to have their papers with them. Unfortunately discrimination still exists, and think otherwise doesn’t make it go away. Guides like this are still used, maybe much more covertly than a published pamphlet, but they are still strongly needed.
ST, you must have missed his earlier article about how white men are now the oppressed here in the US. So I understand why you might think your own experience in the world matter.