SITUATION number FORTY NINE
‘‘The Drum Major Instinct’’ from the pulpit of
Ebenezer Baptist Church. Ironically, two months before his assassination on April 4, 1968 he told his congregation what he would like said at his funeral:
‘‘I’d like for somebody to say that day that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to love somebody’’
(King, ‘‘The Drum Major,’’ 185).
Excerpts were played at King’s nationally televised funeral service, held at Ebenezer on 9 April 1968
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The impossibility of a paradox wrapped in an emotional catch 22, is now known to me as Infinity returned. Infinity returns as time, within a never-ending story of a terrifying day, which the world can see again in my story writing.
In the year of our LORD 2017, 49 years have passed by since the life changing evening of April 4th 1968 ; within this tough annual entry point, I remember the day as tears and fears. You have nothing to fear but fear itself! except when that fear is losing your relationship with Jesus Christ.
In the year of our LORD 2017, 49 years have passed by since the life changing evening of April 4th 1968 ; within this tough annual entry point, I remember the day as tears and fears. You have nothing to fear but fear itself! except when that fear is losing your relationship with Jesus Christ.
Jesus, our Angel unaware; as the HOLY SPIRIT, who provides believers and non-believers with Mercy and Grace, is the Sheppard who guides mankind captive as lambs, into a promise land of Everlasting LOVE with HIM.
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a great man of God whom we lost on that fateful day; at even an appointed hour, but he still lives large in prayer and in praise of God All Mighty.
As a child of the 1960's, I will forever be drawn to the song “We shall overcome” and the name Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr,
whenever I hear any of those words my ears perk up, they always do and always will.
No man knows the future, not even tomorrow and through all of his earthly trials and tribulations; of which we all must go through, Martin Luther King Jr can not be reduced to the struggle of color racism and 2nd class citizenship.
I saw Black & White TV images show me a side of America that demanded the degradation and separation of Black people from society. This is profound when written down, I watched those events in Black & White, it reads like poetic spiritual coincidence. My ears heard the evil words of prejudice and legalized separation, I also saw pictures of people of skin color attacked by dogs, beaten and sprayed with powerful water hoses by the fire department.
By faith, we venture through the Old Testament within Psalm 23: verse 4
yea thou I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil.
The civil right to vote in America presents challenges to Negros or Colored people as Black African-Americans were referred to in 1960’s America. My parents’ generation wanted much more for their children than a life of racial oppression and they fueled the momentous achievement of the turbulent times and a Hallmark of America's Civil Rights movement, passage of the 1965 voting rights act.
It is difficult to talk about the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., this topic does not come up often in conversations. I have concealed; under childhood wonder, the death of this man who I loved, as a misfortune (Amos Fortune) and a reality of those times.
Those times affect today and any day you read Situation number Forty NINE and beyond. Black America has to come out from under the emotional scars of the past, to deal with the present evils of hatred.
On the evening of April 4th 1968, television confirmed the assassination of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., killed in Memphis, Tennessee at the Lorraine Motel. Everything which took place on that night has changed for forever the times on earth.
The news hit everyone hard, I had never felt the kind of fear I felt on that day, and by night fall my city was 1 of the many cities across the United States that rioted. I watched the horror of the riot from the second floor porch of my home, with incredible sadness. I began to ask my parents many questions of why, and hatred did creep in.
I Thank God! that on that night, I learned I was inferior to no one Black or White, bad things happen and will happen, don’t hate and keep your trust in the Lord. I have forgotten to honor that moment, which was the moment I learned to judge people by the content of their character not by the color of their skin.
Black America has not recovered; indeed the United States of America has not recovered and It is never to late and now is the time to clean up misconceptions, let us effectively discuss a painful past with the new Generations and the future, seen by Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr that this great man of God relayed to us within a speech, preached containing his vision called, I have a dream.
Let’s re-commit and effectively discuss a painful past with the new Generations, as we walk into the promised land of Love, Mercy and Grace from the Lord.
50 years is a milestone and 2018 marks 50 years since the sad day Martin Luther King Jr was killed. It was even his eloquent speech and speech pattern that was considered non violent. However mere words did beat back the brutal regime of hate and hatred that rules from high places in USA. WORDS move unseen places and take place inside a place which cannot be seen by man orby the evil one and as such evil can not comprehend. Listen to the echoes of speech from the Great Man Of God, Martin Luther King Jr, the Reverend and Doctorate of learningdid speak so powerfully of the Everlasting Mansions with JESUS and how to live life more abundantly here on Earth. Have you ever done an inventory of those who have touched the Anointed, or have done the Phophet harm. Peace and Rest In Power, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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