Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King

When I was young, the Civil rights movement was also young. I grew up with “colored” kids and they were my best friends. I could not understand how people hated, feared and denied them their rights, they were the only kids that let me play games, shared their lunches with me and let me into their homes to hear Gospel music and Jazz.

I went to an all white private school, lived in an upper middle class white neighborhood and had no friends among my peers. I was beat up, rejected and hazed by these same righteous white Christians that segregated the darker skinned families, rejected them as employees and moved if one of them dared to move into “their neighborhood”. I even dated a “colored” girl for a short while and one of my best friends was french/Indian/ black descent. I could not for the life of me understand why segregation even existed in America.

Now after forty years, the problem of Black/White/Hispanic relations still exists. How, in the Land of the Free and the Brave, can we tolerate this blind and negative relationship with each other and still call ourselves Christians? Didn’t Paul say that there was no difference between the believers? Didn’t Christ Jesus come so that All who might believe in Him, be free to be assured a life in abundant Love? Then there is no difference between Black, White, Asian or Hispanic Christians. And if there is no difference between Christians, then there can be no difference between any man, woman or child. We are all born of the same flesh and we all have the as awareness of Humanity.

So on this day and every day, I remember the walks, the riots and the death of a man who sought to be as I, one with God and one with everyman. Some will say that he was not as godly as he claimed but I remember that David sinned against God and he was said to be favored. We all have our faults but God is a just God and He blesses Whom He Chooses. God blessed Martin Luther King, He Blessed Robert and John Kennedy. These men died, so that all men might be free and equal in the eyes of the law. Christ died that All may have Freedom with the Heavenly Father and equal in the Kingdom of God.

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