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October 04, 2002
Stand up and applaud:
This actually happened over a month ago (Sept. 1), but the meme seems to be picking up steam. I first saw it on Bazima. It's a meme well worth propagating:
"Laquetta Shepard, a diminutive 24-year-old black woman from Louisville with tears in her eyes, stepped into the middle of a group of about five Ku Klux Klan supporters," according to the Louisville (Kentucky) Courier-Journal. " 'They have the freedom to stand there and say what they want, and I have the freedom to walk where I want to walk,' Shepard said. 'They told me I was standing in the wrong place.' "
Laquetta Shepard has a website. No surprise, she wants to be a teacher. "I would be a good teacher," she says on her home page.
Scratch that, Laquetta. You are a good teacher.
(Note: There used to be a picture accompanying this post of the incident described above. I removed it because I realized (a) I was stealing bandwidth from SF Gate by directly linking to it in the IMG tag, but (b) copying it to my site would have been a copyright violation. You can still see the picture by following the link to the story in the Louisville paper.)
Posted October 4, 2002 07:32 AM