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hey...........is there anybody out there?.................yoohooo.............feel so lonely!

Don't feel lonely madda!

Here is mine, and the information I included within it!

My son and I spent the summer swimming, playing and reading. He didn't like to read so I proposed that we read together ~ each with our own book. It was a huge success for us both! He now likes to read and I found time to get off the computer and pick up a few books.

The first book I chose found it's way to me nearly twenty years ago. In my early 20s I went to Memphis to meet my dad for the first time in 19 years. While visiting I didn't want to go to Graceland, I wanted to go to The National Civil Rights Museum, which is the converted Lorraine Hotel where Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated. To say it was a profoundly moving experience is a huge understatement and injustice to the effect it had on me. I picked up "Eyes on the Prize" by Juan Williams that day, yet over the years, never made time to read it. That changed this summer.

The book isn't so much about MLK Jr, but about some of the lesser-known heroes and organizers and victims of the Civil Rights Era from 1954-1965, however it does mention his involvement in some protests during that time, particularly in Birmingham, AL. I was surprised to find out that not all of the civil rights groups welcomed his participation due to his somewhat celebrity status (this was after he won the Nobel Peace Prize).

He was jailed in Birmingham and wrote a letter in response to eight clergymen who openly attacked him in an open letter than had been printed in the Birmingham News. The letter, in it's entirely, can be found here. The quote I used for this palette was omitted from the book I read, though I don't know why (the entire letter isn't printed, only portions) because I think it is part of one of the most important passages...

"Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."

Now, this doesn't just apply to the United States...it applies anywhere people are not given full civil rights and basic human freedoms.

Just something to think about.