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They ate three meals a day neither of which<br />
was St. Lucia’s National Dish green fig and<br />
saltfish…<br />
“We grew tired of eating rice day in and day<br />
out. So, in between meals we’d often steal<br />
sugar to make sweet water to eat with<br />
crackers and cake.”<br />
And even when their palettes craved for<br />
something more scrumptious, they couldn’t<br />
just walk into any café to satiate their cravings.<br />
Because it was 1965 – a time when skin color<br />
dictated where you were welcome and where<br />
you weren’t…<br />
“There were two camps, one for the whites<br />
and one for the colored. Whites were allowed<br />
near the black camp but the blacks couldn’t<br />
dare venture into the white camp,” he recalled.<br />
But times have changed. And the efforts of<br />
activists like Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa<br />
Parks are now more evident…<br />
While in Belle Glade we stopped at a<br />
playground so his three year old<br />
granddaughter could play a while. Then we<br />
stopped at Lake Okeechobee, a place he and<br />
his comrades frequented. About three hours<br />
later, we left Belle Glade and headed back<br />
home.<br />
But, there was at least one more stop to be<br />
made…<br />
About 30 miles from Belle Glade, we were now<br />
in Wellington. We spotted a shopping center<br />
that housed numerous restaurants and shops.
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