MAKE WAY FOR THE QUEEN: A Young Black Man, An Old White Woman, And A Wonderful Moment

A few months ago I was delivering to a gas station in Racine, Wisconsin. All was going quite well and normal when I was suddenly startled by a booming voice coming from the entrance of the store. “MAKE WAY FOR THE QUEEN! LOOK OUT YA’LL! MAKE WAY!” I glanced over to see another truck driver who was also delivering to that establishment was holding the door open for a tiny, frail, slow-moving elderly woman and commanding with a joyous expression on his face that everyone, without exception, get out of the way for this dear, fragile soul. And they definitely did. She inched past her car with a walker, then over the sidewalk, then eventually through the door, stopping only to give a beaming, appreciative, pearl-white smile to the man who had shown her such boisterous kindness and loving bravado.      

He nodded in respect, flashing a grin to her and everyone in the building. With that, the large Black man who had shown such charismatic mercy to a humble, White senior citizen was charging back to his truck and taking off down the road. What I took from this experience was a sense of absolute adoration for humans showing nothing but unconditional care, love, and pure joy towards their fellow man.   After YEARS of division and hatred being spread through cultural & political motives, methods, and ideologies, we need to remember that people are people. Old, Young, Rich, Poor, Black, White, Brown, or Purple. People. We are all people, made in the image of God, and we need to love one another…

…even if that love if shown by way of billowing orders like the Official Announcer of a Royal Court to an entire store on behalf of a single individual (who happens to be very different from you) that you’ve never met in your life. “And the second is like it: love absolutely anyone around you as you would love yourself.” (Matt. 22:39)

-Schindler