I like Clarence Dupnik more every day:

…Dupnik, a Democrat, has a history of taking a stand when he believes in something strongly — without much care for consequences.

In high school, he boycotted his town’s yearly dance because Latinos were not allowed to attend. His best friend was Latino. It didn’t seem right to go without him, he said.

“I didn’t stand up for anything,” he said, noting that he didn’t try to draw attention to that decision. “I just refused to go.”

Racial discrimination reared its head again when Dupnik worked in Bisbee’s copper mines, which he said would not let Latino workers advance into management roles.

Seeing such bigotry helped shape his current disdain for prejudice.

“It’s not right,” he said. “When you start treating people based on where they were born or where their ancestors were born — it’s not right. It wasn’t right then, and it’s not right today.”…

He turned 75 on Tuesday, so that high school dance must have been around about 1954. The Montgomery bus boycott was in 1955.