Monday, January 15, 2007

MLK Jr. DAY

Conversation with my son (age 11)



What day is this?



Monday, MLK Day



What did he do?



He gave the "I have a dream" speech



What did he say in that speech?



Ahhh .... mmmmmm....? errrrr......dunno!



He said Black people and white people

oughtta hold hands. It was a thunderclap.

It had never been said before, and certainly

not with the whole world watching and listening.



Of course that's what secretly or not so secretly

had been going on all along as every intelligent

and observant person in America knew full well.

MLK had in mind a metaphor, not to offend the

ignorant, but as he said explicitly he was in a

reckless mood that day and his quivering voice

could be plainly heard by all.



He paid the price for such truth-telling. Guns

were bought. Rifles too.



The interbreeding, a virtual conflagration, was

announced long agoby William Faulkner. We'd

"Bleach out like rabbits" he wrote.



There are certain places in Los Angeles County

where the bodies of the close to African forms

are still walking around. So beautiful!  And so

stunning because for most of us not seen every day.

The women enter the mainstram as, for example,

cashiers in Discount stores. You'd better not

patronize them, they'll bite your head off. One

extremely reckless day I blurted out, "You're a

very beautiful woman." Guess what she said?

She said, so kind, "Thank you."   PERFECT!



Barry

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