If you recognize that song lyric, you have already had a pause in your day, to honor Dr. King.
In a Boston airport, I saw Coretta Scott King , resting in a wheelchair. Grabbing Emma's arm, we approached her, and touched her arm. Just to say hello, and maybe a thank you, thrown in. I did not know she was boarding our plane, which is not a big deal, but then I got to thinking!!! If this plane goes down, no one will know about me. Mrs. King will have all the attention!!!! Then Emma asked who she was, and brought me back to reality!! An epistle was coming, poor Em!!!
After singing, "Let My People Go", ( not really??) OK, I did hum it. Miss Em heard my entire, "All people are equal" speech. Not like she had not heard it before!!!
I am a very proud southern woman. The south molded me. "She" taught me how "to be" and how "not to be". From a very young age, prejudice, reared its ugly head. Black and white water fountains, I drank from both, it made no sense to me. The big, long seat in the back of the bus, also looked fun, I sat back there also. The colored people, sat in the balcony of the Florida theatre, I wanted to be up there also. I even thought colored was a better name, than "White people" I could not get my young mind around it.
Fear of black people was foreign to me. Fear of "mean" people, was huge, it was at the top of my list. My faith taught me to love all people, I took that literally!!
Dr. King was not a flawless man, he was a "preaching" man, who said "ENOUGH!!!"
Thank God you were born, Dr. King, and for teaching me.
In a Boston airport, I saw Coretta Scott King , resting in a wheelchair. Grabbing Emma's arm, we approached her, and touched her arm. Just to say hello, and maybe a thank you, thrown in. I did not know she was boarding our plane, which is not a big deal, but then I got to thinking!!! If this plane goes down, no one will know about me. Mrs. King will have all the attention!!!! Then Emma asked who she was, and brought me back to reality!! An epistle was coming, poor Em!!!
After singing, "Let My People Go", ( not really??) OK, I did hum it. Miss Em heard my entire, "All people are equal" speech. Not like she had not heard it before!!!
I am a very proud southern woman. The south molded me. "She" taught me how "to be" and how "not to be". From a very young age, prejudice, reared its ugly head. Black and white water fountains, I drank from both, it made no sense to me. The big, long seat in the back of the bus, also looked fun, I sat back there also. The colored people, sat in the balcony of the Florida theatre, I wanted to be up there also. I even thought colored was a better name, than "White people" I could not get my young mind around it.
Fear of black people was foreign to me. Fear of "mean" people, was huge, it was at the top of my list. My faith taught me to love all people, I took that literally!!
Dr. King was not a flawless man, he was a "preaching" man, who said "ENOUGH!!!"
Thank God you were born, Dr. King, and for teaching me.
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