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“A lot of people, Black and white, have the impression that
those of us who got involved in the Movement, when it
started in 1960, were fighting for integration. That’s the
way the white press interpreted the sit-ins and freedom rides
and all that. But what they didn’t understand was that none
of us was concerned about sitting down next to a white man
and eating a hamburger.“
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those of us who got involved in the Movement, when it
started in 1960, were fighting for integration. That’s the
way the white press interpreted the sit-ins and freedom rides
and all that. But what they didn’t understand was that none
of us was concerned about sitting down next to a white man
and eating a hamburger.“
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ing white nationalism. That’s that white supremacist atti-
tude. Nothing is good unless it can be done in the company
of white people. We would’ve been some kind of fools to get
beaten up, spat on and jailed the way a lot of folks did just
to sit down at a lunch counter beside a white person. Inte-
gration was never our concern. In fact, integration is imprac-
tical. You cannot legislate an attitude and integration is based upon an attitude of mutual acceptance and respect
between two racial or cultural groups in the society. A law
can govern behavior, but attitudes cannot be forced or en-
forced, and what the Civil Rights Movement was concerned
with was controlling the animalistic behavior of white peo-
ple. I resented somebody telling me I couldn’t eat at a cer-
tain place. It wasn’t that I wanted to eat there. Hell no! I
always knew we had the best food anyway. But as part of
that constant battle waged by Black people against white
america, if white folks didn’t want me to eat there, in the
door I went. If I had a free choice. I’d sit in the back of the
bus. That’s where the heater is. We weren’t fighting for in-
tegration. We were letting white folks know that they could
no longer legislate where we went or what we did.“