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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
Your complete misunderstanding of taxes and their function has led you to draw incorrect conclusions which ultimately is what the left wants. That goes for you misunderstanding of marginal tax rates as well.
ReplyDeleteYou are being played and used.
Now to the police. Police departments are financed by local taxes. In the case of NYC it's "the rich". In fact in all communities it's "the rich" and middle class property owners ... not federal or state funds. Federal taxes for those evil "rich people" could be slashed and it wouldn't affect police. In fact, I'm sure democrat run cities would greedily raise property taxes and fees to get more money from the evil "rich people". Democrats don't like it when people keep what they earn.
Plus, I don't know where you live but I sincerely doubt police start off at $10.58 an hour. That's $22,000 a year. Where I live recruits start at $38,000 then quickly advance into the $40's.
You know what leads to disgruntled men with guns? Liberal policies. Generations of people on welfare. Generations of people who have lost the incentive and drive to succeed and care for themselves. These are the people who now expect free shit. These are the people who spend their entire lives not doing anything but trying to get over. No work, no school, just collecting checks and complaining. These are now the people who Marxist organizers whip into a frenzy. They tell them nothing is their fault, it's all the fault of white people and cops.
The result is a disrespect for authority, others (white people especially) and themselves.
Honesty and personal responsibility is hard.