day one of frado's journey

I woke up at 5:50,got dressed and double checked my bags to make sure I had everything.I think I called everyone in my phone because this is my first trip where I would be gone for longer than 3 or four days.When everyone met up I was very elated because I knew that there was a quest in front of me that I could only do two things with: 1) learn my history and culture and see history from another light or 2) feel dumb for not.At the rest stop we talked about how blacks couldn't sit in a restaurants, and that if they went inside they usually took their food to go or were sat in the far back behind a curtain. My thoughts were "why would any person treat another like that? how could someone not feed you because your skin is another color?I wanted to be there asking these questions and see what answers I would get.I am a black male and understand people might not like things or people because they don't know,but if they took the time to get to know people or learn about different customs do you believe that the issues were learning about now would be irrelevant?