MLK - a one day late post

Yesterday I was going to do a "Music Monday" piece and talk about the group TRAIN. But, I was really too busy to even think about the World Wide Web. I will tell you though, Train is a pretty good group. I have been listening to their latest CD and as I listen to each song over and over again, the tunes get better.
So more on that later.

Martin Luther King Jr. was really an awesome individual. Regardless of your skin color or ethnic background, he has done so much for society, yet I have to believe that if he were alive today, Things would be even better for the racial harmony so many seek.
He may be ashamed of how black and white (and other races) still act toward each other, but if he would not have been killed, the message he spoke would - in my opinion - have helped (in a big way) how races feel about each other.
I also believe that racism exists and always will (to a degree) from all ethnic backgrounds.
It exists more than Black vs. Whites, or whites vs. blacks, or Americans vs. Arabs, man vs. woman, etc etc.
If we TRULY believe the values that many of us were taught, we can also be a apart of the healing of the world through race relations.
Nothing is impossible.
So in the spirit of what yesterday meant to so many.
Please read this excerpt from Jesus Mean and Wild by Mark Galli.


When Martin Luther King Jr. led marches and boycotts in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963, the local white ministerial association chided him for his impatience with the judicial process. Wait, they said, and things will slowly get better. King would have none of it. He asked them how he and his friends could wait when they had seen vicious mobs lynch their mothers and fathers, and watched hate-filled policemen curse, lick, and kill their black brothers and sisters, had witnessed the vast majority of 20 million blacks "smothering in the airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society." He wondered why he should be patient when he found himself tongue-tied as he tried to explain to his daughter why she couldn’t go to the amusement park she’d seen advertised on TV, seeing tears well up in her eyes when he had to tell her Funtown is closed to black children, and the watching "ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky, and see her beginning to distort her personality by developing an unconscious bitterness toward white people,"
Because Martin Luther King Jr. cared for his fellow blacks, because he was concerned about whites (knowing that their racism was destroying their souls), because he cherished America and its ideals of freedom, he could be patient no longer. He loved so much, he became impatient of racism and injustice.

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Justice is a joy to the godly, but it terrifies evildoers. Proverbs 21:15

"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase." Martin Luther King Jr.