We got back to Meridian, ID on Tuesday. We were in a little town called Burley for a show that morning, and afterward went to a mom and pop's cafe for (my favorite) breakfast. It had been a fantastic day thus far.
However, we go to this cafe, sit down and order, and my co-worker hears a man a booth over say something like "I wish they'd kill Obama already so they can stop showing those n*****s on TV." I didn't hear this, but Christina did. With that said, she left money on the table for her coffee, got up, told our waitress to cancel her order, and left.
When the waitress came to me, I told her what had happened, and I said I wanted my breakfast to go. I couldn't sit there by myself with Christina having left the way she did.
Of course it wasn't the restaurant's fault, the waitress even called the guy a name I won't repeat here. But to be around that could understandably be uncomfortable for someone of African-American descent, as Christina is.
I just can't believe racism is so blatantly displayed still, in this day and age, and during black history month! We are all ONE race, coming from ONE blood, under ONE God.
