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Me, Grandpa, and Martin Luther King Jr.

For my whole life, the real world and the world of myths was connected through the following picture:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/187/4...dcc576121c.jpg

The image of my grandfather, working with MLK as peers...it had a profound impact on me. It showed me that great men were not the creations of story books. But were the very same people as you and me. The picture was a reminder to me of the potential of every one of us.

This is the first year that both the people in the photo are no longer here physically.

Thankfully, the lesson is burned deep in to my core.

May you remember the lives of the giants whose shoulders we stand on. And may you remember your brilliant potential today!

My Grandpa wrote the following in his blog a few years ago:

I have been asked:: ?Who is the greatest Person you ever met? In my 88 years on this Planet the answer for me is ?Martin Luther King, Jr.? None of you heard him but he preached in our First Baptist Church of Denver. When Carol and I were pastoring there.

I had a week with him , chauffeuring him to various speaking assignments. The Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta Georgia had recently affiliated with our American Baptist Convention. That was his home Church.

I?m thankful to have known and worked with both him. Martin was one whom God used in immeasurably ways in making a better country and world. HE PULLED RACISM OUT IN THE OPEN and shared it?s cancerous and odorous forms before the world. This embarrassed our nation. The nonviolent philosophy learned from our Savior and Gandhi worked miracles of change.

In one of his closing sermons he said:

?If I died tomorrow I would like for people to say I tried to clothe the naked and visit those who were in prison. I tried to be right on the war question. I tried to love everyone. If you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major For justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for justice, and for righteousness. All of the other shallow things will not matter. I wont have any money to leave behind. I wont have luxurious things to leave behind. I want to leave behind a committed life:

?If I can help somebody as I pass along, if I can cheer somebody with a word or a song, if I can show somebody he?s traveling wrong, then, my living will not be in vain. If I can do my duty as a Christian ought, if I can bring salvation to a world once wrought, if I can spread the message as the Master taught, then my living will not be in vain.?

?I rejoice in the memory and example of this great man. Thanks for scrolling and I hope you will squeeze every day making meaningful and fulfilling relationships.

Holy Shit!

that is awesome...

Big Hug to him!

no offence, but if i were you, i wouldve left my name out of the subject title....

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Originally Posted by Fletch XXX (Post 13677067)

no offence, but if i were you, i wouldve left my name out of the subject title....

Just trying to designate that i was sharing my personal thoughts/reactions, and not posting a tribute. But I see your point.

Pretty inspiring man...

:)

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Originally Posted by Halcyon (Post 13677032)

For my whole life, the real world and the world of myths was connected through the following picture:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/187/4...dcc576121c.jpg

Which one is your grandfather?

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Originally Posted by Dirty F (Post 13677156)

Which one is your grandfather?

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh
Leave it up to you for coming up with such a response.

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Originally Posted by Dirty F (Post 13677156)

Which one is your grandfather?

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Damn, MLK and your Gramps, that's awesome!

My grandfather ran track with Jesse Owens at Ohio State, but no pics.

Very nice, Cool that you have that pic.

NosMo

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Originally Posted by Halcyon (Post 13677082)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/167/4...2820f582_o.jpg

That's quite the motivational pic :thumbsup

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Originally Posted by D-Money (Post 13677455)

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Damn, MLK and your Gramps, that's awesome!

My grandfather ran track with Jesse Owens at Ohio State, but no pics.

that is bad ass!

Thanks for posting Hal...I just finished re-reading the famous, "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", written by Dr. King nearly 45 years ago. I would like to share a passage:

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I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fan in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that the present tension in the South is a necessary phase of the transition from an obnoxious negative peace, in which the Negro passively accepted his unjust plight, to a substantive and positive peace, in which all men will respect the dignity and worth of human personality. Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with an its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.

Here is a a link to the entire letter.

Peace and Justice,

ADG

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Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude (Post 13677531)

Thanks for posting Hal...I just finished re-reading the famous, "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", written by Dr. King nearly 45 years ago. I would like to share a passage:

Here is a a link to the entire letter.

Peace and Justice,

ADG

That gave me chills. Awesome.

What a powerful quote that your father was sharing.

That's really beautiful, Halcyon. Your stories about your grandfather are very touching.

I miss your Grandpa Caleb posts.

~hugs~

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Originally Posted by Dvae (Post 13677271)

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh
Leave it up to you for coming up with such a response.

I ofcourse didn't mean it in a disrespectful way :)

Halcyon, that's why you're so cool bro! It was inherited from your grandfather! Bless both of you!

Awww.. awesome indeed! great to hear this story! :)

that is real cool buddy

Grandpa Caleb always manages to put a smile on my face - seems fitting that 2 souls like MLK and himself would meet in this world :)