As too much of what passes for press gives racists waaaay too much credibility on the news (including CNN referenced here) in everything Obama,  it is refreshing to find this story about BBQ and sanity:
Pat Davis was just 10 years old when two black men came into his father’s barbecue joint in the heart of the Mississippi Delta in 1947. A huge fuss ensued, with four racists shouting every name in the book.
This guy, the subject’s father, found the fortitude to do the right thing in the forties and before – in Mississippi.  So why should New York, California, and Atlanta news producer not be able to call out racist nutjobs and instead, fuel them with airtime and credibility well beyond their due?
It’s not unusual to find a barbecue restaurant in the South where the ribs are so good you want to run home and kiss your mom. But it’s a rare find to discover the South’s main delicacy cooked up by Lebanese immigrants in Mississippi, who defied segregation and who’ve been doing it since 1924.
The Muslims always take a hit when they don’t criticize their nutcases and suicide bombers but I don’t think we’ve heard any mainstream church criticizing Christian separatists, creationists, the Westboro Baptist Church, preachers praying for other’s deaths – in this country. And they’d probably go nuts to see their book in the language of Islam:
“They would come through the front and inside,” he says. “My daddy never refused anyone no matter what color, race or religion. That’s my philosophy as well.”
He says his father, who always carried a Bible written in Arabic, was “just doing the right thing.” (emphasis mine)
via Barbecue, Bible and Abe chase racism from Mississippi rib joint – CNN.com.
Good on ya, Mr. Davis.
