I helped bury a friend and colleague last week in Detroit, an amazingly joyous sendoff for a man who lived a big and long life.
He
was a retired Episcopal priest. As a young man he rushed to join the
brave throng crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge a second time in Selma,
Alabama in 1965. It was just three weeks after Bloody Sunday, that cruel
riot of police brutality that mercilessly attacked unarmed
demonstrators.
Later, he was
fired from a wealthy suburban congregation for his civil rights witness,
which included him and his wife bundling up their small children to be
part of the massive Poor People’s March in 1968. I should mention,
because it is relevant, he was neither poor nor African-American.
More here-
https://www.fltimes.com/opinion/denim-spirit-how-the-math-works/article_6447c166-3fc1-5863-aea3-9febc17cb56d.html
More here-
https://www.fltimes.com/opinion/denim-spirit-how-the-math-works/article_6447c166-3fc1-5863-aea3-9febc17cb56d.html
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