Monday, July 6, 2009

The White Folk Are Here

We had been here in Jacksonville for two days. We zipped over to Burger King to eat some dinner. I was waiting for the food and Ed went with Ty and Ryan out to the playground area. When they walked out there this man looked up at them and said to the other people that were there, “The white folk are here”. Food was ready, Ed came in with the boys and we sat down to eat. Ed told me what was said. He said he wasn’t sure how to take it, if it was just an observation or if this was a place we weren’t wanted at. We looked around and realized that we were the only white people there, employees included. We also realized that no whites came in while we were there and it was during a busy time……sooooo, not sure if we crossed some unknown boundary or if it was just an observation that white folk were there…..huuummmmm….

1 comment:

Carrie Stuart said...

That's how we felt living in the Imperial Valley. It gave me great insight into how it feels to be in the "minority". Everywhere we went we got the "who invited the white people" look. We were just in SC for Cliff's award ceremony about a year ago...flew into NC and drove down to Ft. Jackson in SC. Nice folks down there...but you probably do want to learn where you are and are not "welcome". You guys are about as white as they come. I'm just sayin'.