Carl: I noticed that the president of Hampton Roads Transit, which runs the Tide (the Norfolk light rail system), is black. I'm old enough to notice the irony. Forty years ago he couldn't have sat in the front of a bus. Literally, couldn't have sat in the front of the bus. And now he's in charge of the buses and the Tide. I've seen so many of these changes over the years. It pleases me.
(The US Supreme Court ruled that this sort of segregation was illegal in 1956, so it's closer to fifty-five years, although de facto bus segregation may have endured longer than de jure segregation, for all I know.)
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