Reply #12: Very nice post and thanks for pointing out some "truths" about Hillary

[juajen]

While Hillary was a senior in high school, I was four years out of high school and working as a secretary in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. My life would be forever changed by the treatment I watched Dr. King and his marchers receive on my street.

The front doors of our business were padlocked, but were all glass. We were worried that bricks would be thrown through the glass. We saw the marchers in the street, the dogs and highway patrolman on the sidewalks, supposedly protecting white businesses on either side of the street. I watched Dr. King in all his magnificence and his followers and supporters bravely march down that street with dangerous people watching. It was a terrible time and a lot of very good people realized that their convictions were not based on their beliefs, but that of their parents.

I was one of those people forever changed, and, eventually, left all of this horror behind me. Dreams of the mistreatment of the marchers, the frightening bricks thrown in the windows of white people's cars if they came too close, the bullhorn of Bull Conner, the dogs, the firehoses; and, worst of all, the bombing of the church and the killing of innocent children will remain with me forever, and the experience colors everything I did afterward and now. I raised my children to hate no one because of the color of their skin, and I did everything I could to make sure Dr. Martin Luther King was a respected historical figure in our household. I am white and aware that my history was very different, though with different struggles.

No struggle makes us different from other people who struggle. We need to love and try to understand all of those people and the individual roads we all have walked. Being a democrat should make us proud, as so many of us struggle every day to be better people and more understanding of the heartaches of others.

I love being an elder American. Though I am older than Hillary by about 6 years, we both personally experienced black America during its most traumatic time; the thrill and danger of the movement and the horror and sadness of the deaths of Dr. King and JFK and RFK, and the turmoil of those times are horrific and mind boggling.

I will take my history living life above all of you young whippershappers in an instant. Perhaps you should be looking for a leader with these kinds of eye opening experiences to lead you, rather than untried young people, who lack maturity and judgment.

Most of us Hillary supporters are not against Obama, we're just against Obama now. A lot of us have lived long enough to appreciate the wisdom of years. He's too young, McCain is a pug and too old, but Hillary, my gosh, is wonderful and just right. Our first woman President and one who has had amazing experiences of history in the making and is ready to make her own.

Jump on board children, jump on board.