*Fruit Salad*
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*Note: This recipe represents the Civil Rights Movement of 1954. The fruit represents the myriad of colors joining as in unity after the Movement ended. Before you make this salad, remember that it may never be fully done. Riots between races still occur today, such as the one in 1992. This was one of the first racially based riots in years. It erupted in Los Angeles and other cities after a jury acquits L.A. police officers in the videotaped beating of Rodney King, an African American. Also, the Klu Klux Klan still exists, and it struggles for White Supremacy. Although it seems as if racial discrimination has been banished, we have to remember that it exists even in our community and that the fight for racial justice continues.
Before you begin
You may need to take into consideration that making this recipe takes a great deal of effort, time, and persuasion. Help from leaders such as Rosa Parks, the Reverend Martin Luther King Junior, and Malcolm X might be needed.
Preparation
Start around the year 1954. First, make separate drinking fountains and restrooms for white and black people. Create a "colored balcony" in every movie theatre and reserve seats in the back of every bus for the blacks. On as many restaurants as you can find, put a sign up outside that reads "whites only." Save the dirtiest, most trashy restaurants for the signs that read "colored." After all of this is in order, you may begin to make your fruit salad.
Making your meal
Step I: As soon as December 1, 1955 comes around, launch a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. Get the help of Rosa Parks if needed. After more than a year of boycotting the buses and a long legal fight, the Montgomery buses will finally desegregate. This is the first ingredient you will add to your bowl.
Step II: Mix up a batch of Brown vs. Board of Education. Stir until the U.S. Supreme Court bans segregation in public schools. Mix this with your bus boycott in the bowl.
Step III: Begin to sprinkle riots into the bowl along with signs that read "Get Whitey," "Stop Racial Discrimination Now" and "We Shall Overcome." Add police to protect any blacks who are harmed in these riots.
Step IV: Shake up your salad. Slice up a number of obstacles such as the Klu Klux Klan and others who are for ultimate white supremacy. Toss these into the bowl and shake things up a bit.
Step V: Sprinkle in some persuasion and hope. In 1963, have Martin Luther King Jr. deliver a speech entitled "I Have a Dream."
Step VI: On July 2, 1964, have President Lyndon Johnson sign the Civil Rights Bill, which will end unfair employment and public accommodation. It will also make segregation in public facilities illegal. Mix this into your salad.
Step VII: Have congress pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The act will authorize federal examiners to register qualified voters and suspend devices such as literacy tests that aim to prevent African Americans from voting. Stir this into your fruit salad along with everything else. Mix well.
Finishing Up: After all these steps have been completed, your fruit salad is ready to eat. Sit down and enjoy the beautiful colors of the varying fruits which have been mixed together to make one salad. As you eat, remember the hardship that blacks went through in our country before the Civil Rights Movement came along. Remember the people who died to make the dream of equality possible, people like the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Junior and Malcolm X. And lastly, remember that each fruit has something special to offer, no matter what its color is.