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Print Email Read Later  Most Americans are inclined to do the
right thing as long as it doesn't cost too much or come wrapped
in too much inconvenience.  Had I been around in the 1950s, I
like to think I would've risked arrest at segregated department
store lunch counters along with others determined to overturn
the Jim Crow laws that were strangling American democracy.  I
flatter myself with this heroic fantasy while conceding
something shameful. In 1979, I used to eat at Sambo's in the San
Fernando Valley, because you could get a three-stack pancake
breakfast with eggs and bacon for under $3. Despite the
restaurant chain's racially incendiary name, I didn't join what
was then an informal boycott. I was too broke to be virtuous in
those days.  Fast forward many decades and I am no longer broke
or living in Los Angeles. Sambo's went out of business a long
time ago, but this wouldn't be America if a restaurant chain --
be it Denny's or Panera --