Cindy's Treasure

From "Fighters For A New World" by Thilo Koch: a book about JFK, RFK, and MLK, their hopes, dreams, and assassinations. (This book was taken out of the library today, and let me tell you I read it in 2 hours, could not put it down. It has been borrowed less than 50 times in 40 years.- Just a little trivia.)

When they killed him in his pity,
When they killed him in his prime...
...They killed him in his kindness,
In their madness, in their blindness,
And they killed him from behind...
-- Herman Melville (written about Abraham Lincoln)

This week's unit in Sociology/ history ha been about these three men and what they stood for. A long time ago, while in art class at Mascoma, I heard MLK's "I Have A Dream" speech. We had to draw our interpretation of it, as I recall. But in the past several weeks, I have found myself drawn over and over to him. In my humanities class, I have written 2 papers on him. I will write a third tonight/ tomorrow morning for this class.
I think I am drawn to him as he strove to live by the Sermon on the Mount. He felt the message there was for all, and that the Declaration of Independence was as well. I wonder if this is the reason I view people as people, and am drawn to doing my best to help, regardless of where they come from. I must say, the words of Melville hit me. I hear them and I think that there s a reason for things that happen, but the blindness of mankind to see what can unify is what destroys us as a whole. It kind of hits us from behind...