August 12, 2011
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A Walk With MLK-My proudest day.
One bright morning when I was a 12 year old boy living in Sandy Springs GA, my mother June announced to my younger brother and sister and me that we weren't going to school that day. She told us to dress nice and get in the car. We only found out as we were leaving the house that we were going to march in Martin Luther King's funeral procession.
It was a short quiet drive. I don't care for crowds and I was worried that this was going to be a long hard sermon to listen to, but I knew we were doing the right thing. We had mostly grown up in the poorer parts of various southern towns and we were used to both colors of people sharing the streets, but this was an amazing feeling to be the only people of one color we saw in such a large crowd. I wasn't surprised at how warm and comfortable it felt. And I realized immediately what a good idea Momma had to come there.
The entire walk and service seem like a beautiful, if melancholy dream. Never had we felt such an outpouring of peace and goodwill through such sadness. All of us have shared our memories over the years, many times. The whole event passed like a song, but midway through my younger brother, only 8, began fidgeting, being so short he was staring at people's stomachs and bored. Then slowly and quietly, without a word, a tall strong man standing behind Steve reached down and picked him up over his head and gently placed him on his shoulders so he could see. Steve was quietly mesmerized and still says it was the most amazing experience he ever had to be lifted up over the crowd and to watch the whole panorama from his private box.
It was a small piece of heaven on earth that the reverend brought to all of us there that day. My mother and sister and brother and I all agree that was all of our proudest day. Not for anything we've done to help with King's cause, but what we did for ourselves by being there. It changed us. It was a religious experience.
When I see pictures of the good doctor and his statue on the mall, he is very real to me. He is still alive, I'm sure of it.
And I wouldn't be at all surprised if he came back one bright morning.
God bless
I agree with Roubini, but then, I've taken numerous graduate level economics courses. IMO, every American should be required to take an economics 101 class because it's obvious to me that they don't know as much as they think they know on the subject. One example of this are the comments posted on the ajc.com vents promoting the "fair tax." These people do not not know what they're asking for, and these are the same people who think deep spending cuts in the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression is a way to jump start our struggling economy. Also, we cannot forget the fact that republican members of Congress, rw radio entertainers, and Fox News entertainers have no deep knowledge of economics, or that there are millions of Americans who take every word that flows from their lips as the gospel truth. I hate to think about it, but I always wonder what the republicans' lower socioeconomic supporters will do if they continue their war against America. It seems as if they think that the republicans will create some sort of "carve out" in their legislation that will protect them from their horrible economic policies, but you and I know that the movers and shakers in the GOP have little respect/regard for the majority of the rank and file members of the party.
ReplyDeletetrue, but we just have to hit back with the tax facts...
ReplyDeleteFrom 1940-80 the wealthiest Americans paid between 70% and 90% in income taxes
and that's how we built...the American Dream. Between 1940-80 we fought and paid for WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War, we built our entire US Interstate Expressway system, we Made every car we Drove and we wore just the cloth What we Sewed and WE WENT TO THE MOON SIX TIMES-AND WE PAID FOR IT ALL!
By the way, my google acct is screwed up and I can't post as Chip Shirley
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