OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I can't serve just the Negro cause. I've got to serve all the people of Massachusetts.
I'm from the Vietnam generation. I didn't serve.
I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me.
The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.
Like the Negro League players, I traveled through the segregated south as a young man. Because I was black, I was denied service at many restaurants and could only drink from water fountains marked 'Colored.' When I went to the movies, I would have to sit in the Colored balcony.
If you're ever in a situation where you're not getting served or you can't get what you need, just cry.
When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.
The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come.
Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.
I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.'