-(This takes place in the 1940s, I'm not saying SF is a racist city today.)
San Franciscans would have sworn on the Gloden Gate Bridge that racism was missing from the heart of their airconditioned city. But they would have been sadly mistaken.
A story went the rounds about a San Fransiscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even after he had made room for her on the seat. Her e×planation was that she would not sit beside a daft dodger who was a Negro as well. She added that the least she could do was fight for his country the way her son was fighting on Iwo Jima. The story said that the man pulled his body away from the window to show an armless sleeve. He said quietly and with great dignity, " Then ask your son to look around for my arm, which I left over there. "Maya Angelou, I know why the caged bird sings. Chapter 27
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