Inspiring Quotes for an Uninspiring Comment
9/19/2007 05:03:00 PM 0 Comments »
On Sunday, my husband went fishing. Besides the fact that he caught quite a few fish, it turned out to be an awful trip. That's not what I'm posting about, however. What I'm posting about is what someone said to him as he was leaving. He was in the parking lot and he was SO ready to leave and go home. As he was driving away, someone said, "Good job, ni**er." Now, I haven't heard that word used in a derogatory manner in quite some time, except on TV or in the movies. I always just assumed that if I did hear it, I would just consider the source, and move along. However, I now realize that words hurt. I'm a little upset. I don't know what I'll do if anyone ever says that in reference to my son. I may just kill someone.
I thought today would be a good day to post my favorite Martin Luther King, Jr. quote. Just something to inspire me to be a better person, you know?
"The hour has come for everybody, for all institutions of the public sector and the private sector to work to get rid of racism. And now if we are to do it we must honestly admit certain things and get rid of certain myths that have constantly been disseminated all over our nation.
One is the myth of time. It is the notion that only time can solve the problem of racial injustice. And there are those who often sincerely say to the Negro and his allies in the white community, "Why don’t you slow up? Stop pushing things so fast. Only time can solve the problem. And if you will just be nice and patient and continue to pray, in a hundred or two hundred years the problem will work itself out."
There is an answer to that myth. It is that time is neutral. It can be used wither constructively or destructively. And I am sorry to say this morning that I am absolutely convinced that the forces of ill will in our nation, the extreme rightists of our nation—the people on the wrong side—have used time much more effectively than the forces of goodwill. And it may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, "Wait on time." "
Peace Out,
Mom
I thought today would be a good day to post my favorite Martin Luther King, Jr. quote. Just something to inspire me to be a better person, you know?
"The hour has come for everybody, for all institutions of the public sector and the private sector to work to get rid of racism. And now if we are to do it we must honestly admit certain things and get rid of certain myths that have constantly been disseminated all over our nation.
One is the myth of time. It is the notion that only time can solve the problem of racial injustice. And there are those who often sincerely say to the Negro and his allies in the white community, "Why don’t you slow up? Stop pushing things so fast. Only time can solve the problem. And if you will just be nice and patient and continue to pray, in a hundred or two hundred years the problem will work itself out."
There is an answer to that myth. It is that time is neutral. It can be used wither constructively or destructively. And I am sorry to say this morning that I am absolutely convinced that the forces of ill will in our nation, the extreme rightists of our nation—the people on the wrong side—have used time much more effectively than the forces of goodwill. And it may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, "Wait on time." "
Peace Out,
Mom
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