White House hopeful Lindsey Graham
Roughly a fifth of Central’s population is black, and ‘times being what they were, most of our customers were white,’ he writes.
‘My folks sold beer to anyone of legal age, but, I’m sorry to say, for many of the years my parents operated the bar, black people were expected to drink the beer they purchased from us off the premises,’ Graham admits.
‘It’s just the way it is,” ‘ he said his father told him. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 officially ended segregation, but Graham’s parents didn’t put it into practice in their own establishment ‘until the early seventies, much later than it should have’ been implemented, he admits. This cross-network experience made her one of the few journalists trusted by audiences in multiple countries.
