Reax to Local Restaurants’ A Day Without Immigrants
Rev Gil Caldwell: Justice Making is good business
Editor, Asbury Park Sun,
What a joy it is to live in an Asbury Park where businesses understand that a public commitment to justice does not negatively harm their businesses. Justice making enhances the integrity of the owners, staff, and customers. And, it is “good business.”
Caldwell at Women’s March Asbury Park
We who are old [I am 83] cannot help but remember our experiences, “back in the day.”.In the 1950’s I with many black students from colleges in the south, traveled to Atlantic City in the summers to earn tuition money. I worked in hotels where I could not be a guest, and in restaurants where I could not be a customer because of racial segregation. Would that businesses then had been able to be as justice focused as are the restaurants in Asbury Park today.
I spoke at a Men’s Breakfast at the Neptune Senior Center on Thursday, Feb 16. I used these words from ‘America the Beautiful’ for my Black History Month speech: “America, America! God shed his grace on thee. And crown thy good with BROTHERHOOD, from sea to shining sea.”
This is a moment in American history when brotherhood and sisterhood, seem to be threatened. Thanks to all who recognize that Asbury Park, “…would not exist without Immigrants.”
Gil Caldwell
a.k.a. “Rev. Gil”
Ocean Avenue
Asbury Park
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