Miami courthouse plaque offers apology for racial injustice
At a ceremony Tuesday, the Dade County Bar Association formally apologized for the two fountains -- stark reminders that the courthouse was once segregated, and that racism was woven into Miami-Dade's legal roots.
''One fountain was restricted to whites. One fountain was restricted to African Americans,'' said lawyer Joseph Serota, who helped lead a courthouse renovation that focused fresh attention on the water fountains.
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Rights to minorities require for the majority to give up some of its privleges. It was wrong for the majority to consider justice as a privledge. As a veteran of the Civil Rights movement, (I started when I was still in high school in the deep south, was there for the first integration in two different school districts and saw the white fear of many of my family and neighbors) I must say the this is fine window dressing, but it does not change the inequality of our "justice system".