Race Relations

The article "Kentucky Church Bans Interracial Couples" talks about a white woman, Stella, and a black man, Ticha, trying to get married in a Kentucky church. The church is in Stella's hometown, and her family was shocked when a decision was made after struggle to allow Ticha to even be in the church, banning their marriage. A vote within the church from this community just shouts racism to the rest of the community. It also may allow the community to think that segregation is a normal factor of life, and it should easily be allowed in public places, like the church in this instance. African Americans would clearly feel shunned, and have resisted desire to join such a community. Racist whites would feel empowered by this. Yet another situation that occured in Panera showed the attempt of whites to restrict blacks from public places. Although blacks were allowed to work in Panera, the systematic way of the particular Panera in Ohio kept blacks from working in viewable parts in the restaraunt. This may not impact the community as a whole, but it impacts the workforce greatly. For employees to attempt to segregate within the workforce, it could potentially influence the community to segregate as well.