Another Birthday for Dr. Martin Luther King


The longer I live the greater Martin Luther King looks 

compared with those who have tried to carry on his work. 

The man had integrity, guts, ideas and class. 


It was heartbreaking in the Sixties to be young and  

filled with hope for change in America, only to see 

JFK, MLK and RFK murdered in the same decade. 


Young people of all kinds had hope back then even if 

we saw little change. We thought it was time for a quiet 

revolution of ideas in America. That never happened.

 

My hope is Mike Pence doesn’t succeed Donald Trump 

the way Lyndon Johnson succeeded Jack Kennedy. We must 

find a peaceful way to get through these next four years.



Copyright © 2017 by Donal Mahoney


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Back when Dr. Martin Luther King was doing his work,

Donal Mahoney was a caseworker in the Cabrini Green Homes

on the near North Side of Chicago—458 families in two giant

high rise buildings. Mahoney believes most of those families, 

black and poor, had far more hope than their poor counterparts

of any race today. John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy 

were still alive. Reform was in the air and people believed

good things would happen. Not as many good things happened 

as we thought but it was a great time to be alive.


Shirley Gerald Ware-Publisher