Some people may be wondering why a blog about preventing foreclosure would take time out to honor Martin Luther King Jr. and other human rights activists. Because, when homeowners ask lawyers and paralegals to defend their property rights, they are appealing to the human rights activist in these legal professionals. Many legal professionals accept cases for no money or at low retainers (compared to the amount of work involved). The clients might not even know the tribulations and retaliation these unsung legal professionals suffer as “punishment” for their good deeds. It takes a day like Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday for all of us to thank these modern day civil/human rights activists who continue carrying King’s torch.
The day Americans set aside to honor this martyr continues to be relevant, even though Americans have a black President. As I recall one Gospel musical artist saying in a song, “It ain’t over.” The it, which ain’t over, is the violation of civil rights/ human rights.
African-Americans are still the targets of a great deal of racial discrimination, but I will say that what has changed, (or was always true but is now more readily apparent), is that American has gone from a racist to a class-segregated society. What this means is that even whites experience discrimination based upon their perceived class, as illustrated by the insult “poor white trash”. Notice that the trash is poor. Shouldn’t “trashiness” be based upon behavior, not a person’s socioeconomic status? After all, I have seen plenty of trashy behavior exhibited by rich white people. I won’t name names, but think of some of the movie stars who have gone to jail, or rehab, or both.
I want to commend and give a “shout out” to those movie stars, like Don Cheadle and George Clooney, who use their celebrity and socioeconomic status to bring public awareness to the ongoing battle of human rights in wartorn Africa. Some cynics question their motives, as if George Clooney is a CIA-operative with a movie star cover, but I have a different perspective: Because I believe blacks are the biological descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, I (and others) have been tracking the parts of Africa where Israelites went into exile after the Northern kingdom was conquered by the Assyrians and the Southern kingdom by the Babylonians and Greco-Romans. The blacks of South Sudan, like the blacks of eastern Nigeria, are now called “Christian”, but their so-called Christianity is really a coverup or code word for their ancient ties to Israel. I appreciate Clooney, Cheadle, Brad Pitt, and everyone else, regardless of race, helping my fellow Israelites.
I am less than a week younger than Martin Luther King Junior’s youngest son, Dexter. We were both only seven years old when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968. Dr. King said in his famous “I Have a Dream” speech the following:
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Dexter, Bernice, Yolanda, and Martin Luther King III.
I hope we are now living in the nation where, at least some of the time, people can be judged by the content of their character. Who are the torchbearers of Martin Luther King’s legacy today? One way of answering that question is by weighing who values life.
I know of a white reporter in Detroit, Diane Bukowski, who has relentless reported about police killings of Detroit’s black citizens, and a black prosecutor, Kym Worthy, who refuses to prosecute the police officers for murder. This prosecutor then prosecuted Diane, as a felon, for photographing and reporting on Michigan State Police killing two black Detroiters, one of whom was returning from the polls after voting. The deaths and the reporter’s arrest occurred on the same day that America voted in its first black President. See http://freedianebukowski.org .
James Willingham, a 42 year old father killed by MSP as America voted for its first black President.
Diane Bukowski being arrested for reporting on the Willingham killing by Michigan State Police. Photo courtesy of the Michigan Citizen
I know of a white father, Attorney Barry King (no relation to Martin Luther King, at least not one that we know of), who has tirelessly worked to uncover evidence about the Oakland County Child Killer, his son’s rapist/killer. (A nickname for the Oakland County Child Killer is the Babysitter.) The Michigan State Police had covered up the evidence for 33 years because the accused killer, Christopher Busch, was the son of Harold Lee Busch, General Motors’ executive financial director for the U.S. and Europe. Here again, the class struggle illustrates that even a middle class white attorney’s son gets no respect compared to the convicted pedophile son of a high-ranking, upper class GM executive. Sadly, Barry King got a taste of what blacks still go through, being treated like our children’s lives don’t matter. Mind you, I’m not relating history from a generation ago. Barry King just received the evidence regarding his son’s 1977 death a month ago, in December, 2010.
Mark Stebbins, Kristine Mihelich, Jill Robinson and Timothy King.
These are just a few of the injustices occurring in Michigan. A friend of mine, in Toronto (Canada), asked, in disbelief, if Michigan is really so corrupt. I replied, “Not only Michigan.”
Be encouraged, all activists. Even though martyrdom still takes place in America and throughout the rest of the world, there is a God. He still judges. One blogger even dared to say the following:
The worst part of this story is that the last child to be murdered, King’s son Timothy, age 11, didn’t have to die. Christopher Busch was in custody and released after (my guess) passing a lie detector test. I hope you all know that people can pass them, even when people are lying. I wonder what the former Oakland County Prosecutor (at the time of these murders), L. Brooks Patterson, will be thinking this morning when he reads the latest news about “The Babysitter.” Will Patterson wonder if his own son died young because he couldn’t prevent the death of Timothy King?
Quoted from http://thegirlfromtheghetto.wordpress.com .
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