Anyway, happy Remembrance Day! Like some other countries, many Canadians wear poppies on their left side to commemorate the veterans. A few weeks before today you can find veterans on the street and in the subway station selling felt poppies. Because I didn't bother to take my own photo from the thousands I encountered this month, here is a nice photographic example I stole from Google Images instead:
In other news, today I had a coworker ask me (seriously, I believe) if races were still segregated in the South. More specifically, he wanted to know if places had bathrooms for blacks and whites and if someone could be turned away from a business if he/she was black. My response: "um, no." His response: "yeah but someone told me black people could get turned away from like, a general store in a really rural area" Well, this could be true in some places but I can't comment for sure because I've never witnessed it. However, I have never actually been inside the Dixie Outpost ("The South's largest confederate store").
Anyone from SC care to elaborate or stories to share? I have a limited perspective on the subject of racist rural general stores myself...
late,
me
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