Separate Entrances 0
Recently, much fuss has been made about a ritzy Manhattan development’s plan to have a “poor door,” a separate entrance for persons in the “affordable” apartments. Leonard Pitts, Jr., points out that the fuss overlooks the obvious. A nugget:
Afterthought, Later That Same Day:
I know about separate entrances. Once, when my mother, my brother, and I were taking the bus to visit my grandmother in South Carolina–I was maybe ten–I entered the wrong separate entrance to the wrong waiting room in the Raleigh, North Carolina, bus station. All the Not White folks in that room stopped talking and looked at me, with “What are you doing here” in their faces.
I have never felt so out of place, nor so alone.
I would never wish that feeling on anyone.
Any society that breeds that feeling is evil.
Anyone who would perpetuate that society is evil.
