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This warranty has not always been honored for some of us. Because of the color of our skin or the place from whence we came, some of us were denied the right to vote; we were enslaved; we were denied due process; and the equal treatment granted to others was not ours to enjoy.
In my lifetime, I can give testimony to America's meaner instincts and their consequences upon my life. To reflect upon this nation's past, with my racial background, it is tempting to mock that pledge, to devalue the warranty, and to be embittered by those who would urge me to forget the past.
One need only invoke a few memories to become enraged and to feel called to all of the preferences that can be presented:
Rosa Parks relegated to the back of the bus,
Drinking fountains for "whites only,"
Restrooms for "men," "women," and "colored,"
George Wallace standing in the schoolhouse door saying "segregation now, segregation forever,"
Images of black people being hosed in the streets simply because they demanded that the warranty be honored,
And my thirty-year-old uncle being called "boy" by a ten-year-old white kid.
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