Dear Friends,
This past Monday was MLK Day. I wonder what he would think of today’s world. Will he think we achieved peace in the world or we still have a lot to do to get there? Someone told me that he would not like people having a day off on his birthday. I might agree to a point because he wanted everyone to conduct themselves in a polite and Christian manner. When you think of Dr. King, we think peace and civil right for all. However, most people don’t even know what he wanted from all of us. Some people were very ignorant about the meaning of the day. One person out west wanted to set off a bomb just to make a point about disorder and chaos. Dr. King would have been disgusted.
We ask if he could have lived in this world. I don’t think he would have like the things that occurred after his death. JFK was assassinated just before he was. His brother was killed after MLK. So if all three did not die, this might have been a better country. King would have finished his non-violence marches, JFK and his brother would have shown the world that we could change the world, and even things like Mandela being imprisoned would have been shortened. It is nice to pretend and speculate but we live with what happened.
So what now? Well we keep living our lives and we try to remember what JFK, MLK and others wanted to do in the 1960’s and 1970’s: Peace in the world. We forget that peace is something greater than war or hatred. We still have people that want to destroy and hurt the American way of life. However, it is the universal way of life that is threatened because of people that want to disrupt peace. I hope to see a better world before I die.
Eugene Chandler III
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