“What you think, is much different from what you know." Return to segregation?
After reading the Valdosta Daily Times opinion column on October 14, 2009. I can only say that J.H. (Sandy) Sanders publisher, Kay Harris Managing Editor is at it again with their one sided, incorrect information and outdated opinion. While I agree with the times that Rev. Dr. Martin L. King Jr. said; “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaves owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.”
However, where did they get their information?
That a local Valdosta organization has taken Kings Work and distorted it by saying that whites cannot educate Blacks and Blacks should only be with Blacks? And that his words have been distorted and have been used in such a hate-filled diatribe against another race?
Why would they say? “Shame on those who want to turn back the clock, to undo all of the true good that has happened in the last 40 years, and to rip apart the dream of equality that so many have worked so hard to create?”
In what areas have Blacks in Valdosta tarnished the dream of Dr. Martin L. King Jr. of which he lived, suffered, and was murdered for? I offer an open challenge to the Times to produce proof of these accusations made in the column against local organizations. Moreover we do not need YOU to remind us of Kings Dream. We are living the dream each and every day while receiving the same condemnation as King and others that fought the best non-violence fight in the nation for change.
So please don’t play games if you are unwilling to use truth while on the field of play. Too often Americans use one of Dr. King’s quotes as the times did in their column. I will NOW share a few quotes that you failed to publish in your column.
Rationalizations and the incessant search for scapegoats are the psychological cataracts that blind us to our sins. But the day has passed for superficial patriotism. He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery. Freedom is still the bonus we receive for knowing the truth.
"Ye shall know the truth," says Jesus, "and the truth shall set you free." Now, I've chosen to preach about the war in Vietnam because I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in
God has a way of standing before the nations with judgment, and it seems that I can hear God saying to America, "You're too arrogant! And if you don't change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power, and I'll place it in the hands of a nation that doesn't even know my name. Be still and know that I'm God."
Now it isn't easy to stand up for truth and for justice. Sometimes it means being frustrated. When you tell the truth and take a stand, sometimes it means that you will walk the streets with a burdened heart. Sometimes it means losing a job...means being abused and scorned. It may mean having a seven, eight year old child asking a daddy, "Why do you have to go to jail so much?"
GEORGE BOSTON RHYNES
Retired United States Armed Forces Veteran
A concerned citzen and brother of humanity
After reading the Valdosta Daily Times opinion column on October 14, 2009. I can only say that J.H. (Sandy) Sanders publisher, Kay Harris Managing Editor is at it again with their one sided, incorrect information and outdated opinion. While I agree with the times that Rev. Dr. Martin L. King Jr. said; “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaves owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.”
However, where did they get their information?
That a local Valdosta organization has taken Kings Work and distorted it by saying that whites cannot educate Blacks and Blacks should only be with Blacks? And that his words have been distorted and have been used in such a hate-filled diatribe against another race?
Why would they say? “Shame on those who want to turn back the clock, to undo all of the true good that has happened in the last 40 years, and to rip apart the dream of equality that so many have worked so hard to create?”
In what areas have Blacks in Valdosta tarnished the dream of Dr. Martin L. King Jr. of which he lived, suffered, and was murdered for? I offer an open challenge to the Times to produce proof of these accusations made in the column against local organizations. Moreover we do not need YOU to remind us of Kings Dream. We are living the dream each and every day while receiving the same condemnation as King and others that fought the best non-violence fight in the nation for change.
So please don’t play games if you are unwilling to use truth while on the field of play. Too often Americans use one of Dr. King’s quotes as the times did in their column. I will NOW share a few quotes that you failed to publish in your column.
Rationalizations and the incessant search for scapegoats are the psychological cataracts that blind us to our sins. But the day has passed for superficial patriotism. He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery. Freedom is still the bonus we receive for knowing the truth.
"Ye shall know the truth," says Jesus, "and the truth shall set you free." Now, I've chosen to preach about the war in Vietnam because I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in
God has a way of standing before the nations with judgment, and it seems that I can hear God saying to America, "You're too arrogant! And if you don't change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power, and I'll place it in the hands of a nation that doesn't even know my name. Be still and know that I'm God."
Now it isn't easy to stand up for truth and for justice. Sometimes it means being frustrated. When you tell the truth and take a stand, sometimes it means that you will walk the streets with a burdened heart. Sometimes it means losing a job...means being abused and scorned. It may mean having a seven, eight year old child asking a daddy, "Why do you have to go to jail so much?"
GEORGE BOSTON RHYNES
Retired United States Armed Forces Veteran
A concerned citzen and brother of humanity
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