Comments on: the silence… http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2008/04/04/the-silence/ All Mickey, All the Time Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:06:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Val http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2008/04/04/the-silence/#comment-61866 Val Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:45:12 +0000 http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2008/04/04/the-silence/#comment-61866 I've been thinking a lot about rage today. It is so true that silence is as powerful as rage. Thank you fro your post. It is a memorable description of an event that affected the world. I’ve been thinking a lot about rage today. It is so true that silence is as powerful as rage.

Thank you fro your post. It is a memorable description of an event that affected the world.

]]> By: Abby http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2008/04/04/the-silence/#comment-61852 Abby Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:06:22 +0000 http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2008/04/04/the-silence/#comment-61852 Oh good! I was hoping you decided to write about this today: http://proactivebusybody.com/2008/04/04/40-years-since/ Oh good! I was hoping you decided to write about this today:
http://proactivebusybody.com/2008/04/04/40-years-since/

]]> By: joyhollywood http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2008/04/04/the-silence/#comment-61825 joyhollywood Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:15:10 +0000 http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2008/04/04/the-silence/#comment-61825 As a teenager in High School, I did some volunteering for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.I had to stop when my parents found out because they said it was too dangerous. After HS I went into the convent. I came out on a leave of absence and started working in downtown Newark,NJ with my twin sister. That was about the time of the Newark riots in '67. We were told by out respective bosses that everybody had to come to work regardless of the riots, my parents had fits about it but we didn't want to lose our jobs. There was many a night going home that we sat on the bus passing bullet ridden buildings and fires and people standing around with bandages on their heads, arms, etc. People I knew were mad at King and anybody involved in the civil rights organizations because people felt that they were encouraging the rioters. I never felt that was true. A year later when Dr King was killed, I had just finished working overtime and I was coming home later than usual and I heard it announced in the streets of Newark that King was dead. I thought to myself at that moment I was one of only a couple of white people with mostly black people around me at the bus stop in Newark. and I looked to see their reaction and it was one of sorrow not anger. I felt very sad for all of them because I knew that he was a positive influence for all of them and for us too. Years later my Mom was asked by a friend's son who was in HS and needed to interview someone who had lived during the WW2 and the civil rights movement what he or she thought of Martin Luther King today and she said he was a bad man who caused trouble and a womanizer too. When my 2 sisters and I heard this we almost fell off our chairs. The 3 of us recognized him as a hero then and now. It's funny how people get to certain opinions in their lives. We did end up telling our Mom how we felt and how their were certain people in Gov't like J Edgar Hoover how leaked out many lies about Martin Luther King to discredit him. As a teenager in High School, I did some volunteering for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.I had to stop when my parents found out because they said it was too dangerous. After HS I went into the convent. I came out on a leave of absence and started working in downtown Newark,NJ with my twin sister. That was about the time of the Newark riots in ’67. We were told by out respective bosses that everybody had to come to work regardless of the riots, my parents had fits about it but we didn’t want to lose our jobs. There was many a night going home that we sat on the bus passing bullet ridden buildings and fires and people standing around with bandages on their heads, arms, etc. People I knew were mad at King and anybody involved in the civil rights organizations because people felt that they were encouraging the rioters. I never felt that was true. A year later when Dr King was killed, I had just finished working overtime and I was coming home later than usual and I heard it announced in the streets of Newark that King was dead. I thought to myself at that moment I was one of only a couple of white people with mostly black people around me at the bus stop in Newark. and I looked to see their reaction and it was one of sorrow not anger. I felt very sad for all of them because I knew that he was a positive influence for all of them and for us too. Years later my Mom was asked by a friend’s son who was in HS and needed to interview someone who had lived during the WW2 and the civil rights movement what he or she thought of Martin Luther King today and she said he was a bad man who caused trouble and a womanizer too. When my 2 sisters and I heard this we almost fell off our chairs. The 3 of us recognized him as a hero then and now. It’s funny how people get to certain opinions in their lives. We did end up telling our Mom how we felt and how their were certain people in Gov’t like J Edgar Hoover how leaked out many lies about Martin Luther King to discredit him.

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