Lawrence Jones

They Killed You But They Didn’t Kill Your Vision



Posted: Monday, January 18, 2010

by Lawrence Jones
Jones & Assoicates

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was an African-American clergyman who changed the social fiber of this nation. He was for non-violence. Dr. King was gun down in the prime of his life. He was a man that had compassion for the young, old, poor, black, and white. He was a person that stood by the weak. I mourn his death and so do millions this day Monday, January 18, 2010. He will always be a King of Social Justice.

Through non-violent means he transformed the minds of men. His voice was like thunder that shock the very core of complacent old South. He was philosophical fly the buzzed and nagged at the White Power Structure. "A powerful speaker and a man of great spiritual strength, he shaped the American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. King was pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama from 1954-59."

I wasn't around when he walked the Earth. I often wondered what it would have of been like to have sat at the feet of such a prophet and minister. Yet pondering being in a meeting to be trained in non-violence, I couldn't have taken the punches, kicks, stabbings, name calling, and disrespect of racist white folks.

I would have been standing by the door with a gun in my hand looking out the window. I read and see even in these times where white folk still cheat and steal to maintain there white privilege and unfair advantages in America.

But justice has rain down on the people of this United States of America. Times have changed and so has the heart of men-especially: white men. In Mississippi you see black and white holding hands. Little boys and little girls walking done the street talking, laughing, and singing. Alabama has embrassed the culture and have acknowledged what blacks have contributed to gospel music and the "good old time religion".

"I have a dream" is no longer a dream but a reality. He was a man with an angelical and intellectual prowess that stood at the feet of power and told the nation and world that all men are created equal and have the right to the pursue of happiness and longevity. He dared to look evil, hatred, violence in the face. He spoke love to hate, compassion to indifference, tolerance to non-exceptence, and justice to the lawless.

President Obama is a manifestaiton of the dream/vision. My little girls are the reason he dead so they can play with their white friends and classmates. They learn together, they grow together, and share the world. One human family, one love and one God to share. As we go about this day let his dream rain down drops of love, peace, and happiness for all humanity. Let every man and woman that reads this live and thrive. God bless Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and all his family.

In

Memory

&

Tribute to

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.



By Lawrence Jones

 
 
He has won numerous awards such as the World of Poetry Award (1990 & 1991), the Blue Bonnet Award from the Southern Poetry Association, and Blue Ribbon Award from Poetry World. 


    
His highly anticipated book of poems Rain Drops From Heaven, book can be purchased at www.raindropsfromheaven.com, is a tribute to the treasures and heartbreaks of a fruitful life. He expresses the needs and desires of a young man, driven by God, to achieve excellence.  

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» left by Carol Fernandez
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Thankyou for writing with such passion about that which you feel so deeply.I look forward to taking a look at your poems.
 
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