Martin Luther King

“Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another’s flesh.” - Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, Sweden, December 11, 1964.

It is evident that man has not reached the day when violence towards his fellow man is as abhorrent as eating human flesh. Dr. King’s dream of peace among nations is shrouded beneath the thick seaweeds of senseless killing, children killing parents and parents killing children. His dream for peace in our cities and towns saggs like the belly of mother heavy with child.

There is another child in the world today without a mother because somebody in Washington felt that the shedding of human blood was not yet as abhorrent as eating another’s man flesh. Instead a decision was made to shoot a mother, a woman, a human being in the head and take her life away from her child, away from her family, away from friends, away from the world. Was she shot because she was gay? Was she shot because of mistaken identity? Was shot because she worked construction? Was she shot because of her car? Was she shot for fun or some gang initiation? Forty and twenty questions and there is no answer that will mend her motherless child’s broken heart. Do you think the day will come that Dr. King speaks of when men will abhor violence as much as eating human flesh?

Tell me how you see things…..