True or false, we knew if we didn’t face racism head-on the United States could crumble from inside at any time. That’s why we flew to New York City to hear MLK speak at the Riverside Church in April of 1967. Eloquent as always, on this night he sealed his fate when he openly declared opposition to the Viet Nam war. I could almost picture Father gritting his teeth and throwing a glass against the wall. I also recalled his words to Robbie years before, “When people like you displease people like me, people like you cease to exist.”
Fortunately, a respite followed—for San Francisco, at least. 1967 was the Summer of Love. It actually got rolling earlier in the year at the Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park sometime that January. Over a hundred thousand people attended this rally for peace and l
