The SOuth!!!!

In one of Dr. King’s letters written from a jail in Birmingham on April 16, 1963, he wrote: “While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would have little time for anything other than such correspondence in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work. But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I want to try to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms.”

While this was written forty-five years ago, as a race of people and human race, we have not come as far as we should have or even as we think. For example, Perry and Forsyth County are southern towns located in southern Georgia that still today practice open racism. As shocking as it may seem, there are still rallies involving the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacy organization that opposes equality for all races and nationalities. How absurd that in 2008 this would still be going on, yet it’s very real in southern Georgia. This was one of the very towns that Dr. King marched in and protested in his day. He sang “We Shall Overcome,” yet we haven’t truly overcome as we are still living in the past.