The lunch counter in Greensboro.

Local students demonstrate at the Capitol.

Law enforcement just doing their jobs, trying to enforce the segregation laws in effect. But the crowds had no respect for the law.

Here is a picture of the integration of the school system in Little Rock:

So many folks to my right want to claim they understand and support social justice and want to decry its current practitioners. I suspect in 1957 the folks around Olympia who are angry at the Port demonstrators have much in common with the gentile example of southern feminity on display in the picture above. My guess is that woman, if she is asked today, would claim to be in support of lunch counter integration, school integration, and civil rights.

That doesn't make her enlightened, it makes her late.

Today, I give thanks for the people who will break unjust laws to serve peace and social justice. I give thanks for people who will risk arrest, beatings, the vocal threats that are part of a long movement for justice.

For those of you who want to claim to support this long movement in its historical roots and accomplishments and want to decry the movement's current day work, I tell you that you are not enlightened, you are late.