I have been personally victimized by organized disruption of a public lecture on a university campus – at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Michigan State University, and Rhode Island’s Providence College, to name only a few.
Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.
I’m not opposed – we manufacture a lot of socks in North Carolina – I just choose not to wear them. It’s a Southern thing. It’s a cultural thing.
