Monday, April 4, 2005
Day of Remembrance
37 years ago today, Martin Luther King was assassinated.
I don’t have anything in particular to note on this sad day, other than to ponder at what he might have accomplished if he would have had a second 39 years on this planet. Unfortunately today, we seem to lack prophetic voices which would challenge us to follow Jesus’ example of nonviolence, his call to raise up the poor, his command to love one another as we would love ourselves, regardless of what the color of our skin or the place of our birth might be.
April 4th, 2005 at 5:51 pm
Unfortunately today, we seem to lack prophetic voices which would challenge us to follow Jesus’ example of nonviolence . . .
There was the Pope, of course, but he was a foreigner. Any of us who care what a foreigner thinks are obviously unpatriotic quiche-eating communists.