HONORING A GREAT MAN
Comparisons can be difficult. However as it relates to one particular man, it is easy. Let's begin the comparison with a list of people who were given much. They received a family inheritance. They used greed to accumulate wealth. They misused power. It was thought to be heroic by one guy who invaded the tiny island of Grenada with the most powerful military in the world. The same guy sheepishly pulled American troops out of Lebanon when confronted.
Some of the guys thought brandishing a weapon made them more masculine. Some were nothing without a weapon or massive military behind them. Some gained fame by discrediting others. Some used racism and bigotry to further their "popularity." Some were outright stupid and without the advantage of money or inherited power, they would have been nothing. Some were viscious. Some schemed against their perceived enemies. And so it goes throughout American history.
Let's look at that list first, and then look at the exception, the man we honor at this time...
Dick Cheney, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew, Bill Clinton, Joe McCarthy, Rick Perry, Calvin Cooledge, Warren Harding, Robert McNamara, George Wallace, Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms, General Westmoreland, George W. Bush, Rupert Murdoch, Governor Dukakis, J. Edgar Hoover, Donald Rumsfeld, William Randolph Hearst, Tom DeLay
Compare the above group to the non-violent leader...
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
