Are you crazy? They can't come in here........

I watched History being made all day yesterday thru the inauguration of our 44th President, Barack Obama. I've seen a lot of history made during my long life, but for me, yesterday was an outstanding day.

I was raised in South Dakota during the 40's & 50's and had only seen one black person in our area while I was growing up. He was a man in his thirties. I don't remember him having a wife or children. Everyone called him 'Rastus', everyone liked him, and that is about all I remember.

After graduating from highschool in 1957, I moved to Seagoville,Texas, a suburb of Dallas. I was living with Jack & Agnes Mc Coy. He was the foreman on the TV tower that had just been constructed on Medicine Butte, outside my home town. The plan was to stay in Seagoville for the summer & then on to Brownsville, Texas to build another tower & I would attend a college there. During that summer I went to work at a Diner close by. On my second day @work, I was in the kitchen & three black men were knocking on the kitchen's screen door. I went to the door to see what they wanted. They were placing an order for some hamburgers........as I am trying to explain where the entrance to the diner is, the cook screams at me 'are you crazy? they can't come in here! I had never experienced segregation. I didn't understand it, didn't think it was fair, and didn't like it..........and, still don't.