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In reply to the discussion: I am not posting this for the purpose of getting either sympathy or suggestions. I just think [View all]AverageOldGuy
(1,510 posts)I'm 75, born and reared in Jim Crow Mississippi. As a college student in Alabama in the 1960's I marched in Selma, Montgomery and Birmingham. I, too, find myself after a bit too much good whiskey sitting on my deck late at night and watching the ghosts and monsters coming out of the woods.
I live in a deep-red rural VA county. I work out at a local gym 4-5 mornings a week. I wear one of my two favorite T-shirts:
-- One reads "Let justice roll down like a mighty river and righteousness like a never-ending stream." (Amos 5:24)
-- One reads "Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly with your God." (Micah 6:8)
At least once a week another gym rat -- young, old, middle-age, men, women -- stops me and thanks me for the T-shirt. Just today, a 20-something young woman stopped me, thanked me for the shirt, and said "What really pisses me off is -- My grandmother marched, my mother marched, and now I'm still marching to stop this shit."
You are not alone -- remember MLK "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice