Repeal Prop 8 - Sign Program
American Apparel
American Apparel
BodyFactory
BodyFactory
Box Brothers
Box Brothers
Cake and Art
Cake and Art
Collar & Leash
Collar & Leash
Elite Animals
Elite Animals
Fiesta Cantina
Fiesta Cantina
Hamburger Haven
Hamburger Haven
InStyle Nails
InStyle Nails
JB Dry Cleaners
JB Dry Cleaners
Mickey's
Mickey's
Primo Bistro
Primo Bistro
Tinder Box
Tinder Box
Trunks
Trunks
Video West
Video West
West Coast Sunglass
West Coast Sunglass
Z Pizza
Z Pizza
Avocado Grill
Avocado Grill
Berry Lee Shoes
Berry Lee Shoes
Bluthner Pianos
Bluthner Pianos

 

 

 

 

Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say, ’Wait.’ But . . . when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six year old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky, and see her beginning to distort her personality by developing an unconscious bitterness toward white people; . . . when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading "white" and "colored";  . . . when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro, living constantly at tiptoe stance, never quite knowing what to expect next, and are plagued with inner fears and outer resentments; when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of "nobodiness"--then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter From a Birmingham Jail  (April 16, 1963)