I really wish we still lived in a time when there was still privacy for our sins. To bad NONE of us are perfect.
There are some issues between just the people involved. I am a real stickler for faithfulness in marriage. That's my rhing. I won't list where I fall short. That is nobody's business and I don't want to hear about the personal failings of others. We should each tend to our own business and leave others alone. Yeah, like that is going to happen. There is nothing anyone could say that would change my opinion of Dr. King. I thank God for him and his bravery was clear.
I'm so grateful that my family did not raise me to be a racist. There was a black man who lived on my grandaddy' farm when I was little. I can't remember a time when he was not there every Sunday when all my aunts and uncles came for lunch (we called it dinner). They had all grown up together and he was as much a part of us as any one. He came as long as my grandparents lived and would have kept coming but the Sunday dinners stopped. He came to all the funerals in our family and we went to all of his. There was nothing I wouldn't have done for him and his family. Maybe it was because of him that my family never taught us to be unkind. I was born and raised in Alabama and still live there. You might think you know how bad it was here, but you don't. It was inhuman. It was worse in the cities and towms than it was in the country where I grew up.Yet there was no real violence in our town when intergration came. Young blacks had xit ins at lunch counters the one incident was a man slapping a black girl. He was hauled off to jail, but so were all the young blacks. They were released as soon as they were booked. Our city was the first in Alabama to intergrate restaurants and the first to intergrate the schools and all without violence. Now lest you think our citizens were the kindest folks in the south. I'll tell you why. Huntsville was our county seat. You may have heard of it as the Rocket City. In 1958 the German Scientist were already here. There were tons of government contracts headed here to build the rockets that would eventially take man into space. The civic leaders and local government did not want to lose those contracts. So I guess yiou could say greed was what won out.
I loved Dr. King from the get go. What ever feet of clay he had, he made up for it with his tireless efforts to gain equal rights for all. He led the SCLC in the toughest times in Alabama. They ougfht to have a statue of him here. (I do not like the one of him in Washington D.C. it does not look like him) He will, for me, always be the greatest American who ever lived.