Manmay LaKay Magazine Issue 2 April 2018 | Page 93

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