[Vision2020] It Was Forty Years Ago Today (April 4, 1968)

[keely emerinemix]

I remember the day very well.  I was seven, and it was the first time I'd ever seen my father cry.  My parents were very active in the civil rights movement, and Dr. King's assassination affected them and their work very deeply.  That work isn't done.  Not by any means, and not here on the Palouse, where we have bigotry and indifference roiling in an ugly pot filled and stirred by those who claim the name of Christ -- the Christ with whom Dr. King's soul is now at rest.

May God bless all those who work for justice, peace, and righteousness.

Keely




> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> From: thansen at moscow.com
> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 18:43:18 +0000
> Subject: [Vision2020] It Was Forty Years Ago Today (April 4, 1968)
> 
> Robert Kennedy's speech on death of Martin Luther King, Jr.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCg05pTYt0A
> 
> “Abraham, Martin, and John” By Harry Belafonte
> http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Abraham_Martin_John.mp3
> 
> “Has anybody here,
> Seen my old friend Abraham,
> Can you tell me, where he's gone,
> He freed a lotta people,
> But it seems the good die young,
> I just looked around,
> And he's gone.
> 
> Has anybody here,
> Seen my old friend John,
> Can you tell me, where he's gone,
> He freed a lotta people,
> But it seems the good die young,
> I just looked around,
> And he's gone.
> 
> Has anybody here,
> Seen my old friend Martin,
> Can you tell me, where he's gone,
> He freed a lotta people,
> But it seems the good die young,
> I just looked around,
> And he's gone.
> 
> Didn't you love the things they stood for,
> Didn't they try to find some good for you and me,
> And we'll be free,
> Someday soon it's gonna be one day.
> 
> Has anybody here,
> Seen my old friend Bobby,
> Can you tell me, where he's gone,
> I thought I saw him walkin' up over the hill,
> With Abraham, Martin and John.
> I just looked around and they’re gone.”
> 
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.“
> 
> - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
> 
> 
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