Reply #31: Well, well!

[H2O Man]

I had not seen you on DU in a little while .... and I knew you had put a lot of effort in on the effort to change this country .... I recall that I posted a number of compliments on your posts in October.
So I am glad to see you tonight!

This I can say: and while I am claiming no special insight or connection, I know -- as well as I know my hand -- that the spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr is not spinning in his grave .... and I know that you are using an expression, but because you are upset by the election .... I assure you that the spirit of Rev. King is alive and well in America tonight. Yes, he is. When that teen-aged girl in Los Angeles decided today not to accept the Bush administration's placing a limit on her future, expecting her to be satisfied with mediocrity rather than aspiring to excellence .... that was Rev. King. And when some college students in Florida decided today that too many people had fought too hard in the uncivil wars of the 1860s and 1960s for them to not fight for their right to vote, that is Dr. King, too.

"Down at the cross where my Savior died
Down where for cleansing from sin I cried
There to my heart was blood applied
Singing glory tio His name!"
- Hymn quoted by James Baldwin in "The Fire Next Time"