I just watched a PBS program about Bobby Kennedy. Its focus was on the Indianapolis speech immediately following the MLK assassination and the effect he had on the crowd. No one knew that in only a few months he would also die at the hands of an assassins bullet.
This is especially poignant in the aftermath of the shootings in Tuscon and the American fascination with violence as a tool.
As a young man the killing of JFK in 1963, MLK and finally RFK in 1968 was just too much to bear and I disengaged from the public sphere for twenty years. As long as it took hope and promise to return.
Now, as an older man forty two years later I understand that we cannot afford to disengage and must press on for the forces against the community of mankind are unrelenting for we war with our own natures.
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