MLK

Just got out of the Martin Luther King Jr. Historic Center on Auburn Street in Atlanta and I must say as a white man that I felt guilty walking through the memorial. maybe its because I was a white dot among many blacks but I think its more because of how whites treated blacks in our history.

And I don't mean to apologize for our history because what happened in the US was no different and in many cases better that that happening in other areas of the world. But its also not to excuse it. I'm sure many, many blacks would take what had happened in the US in past years to what is happening in some of the African countries at present. At least we never had systematic genocide; I'd venture that blacks have done worst against their own race throughout history that whites have done. But that's just a guess.

What all of this boils down to is what is right and wrong. I personally believe right is an eternal principle and not one that changes from age to age, era to era. We live in an era of relativistic morality; selfish desires remaking the world into a world in which the less moral can feel comfortable out in the open. A brave New World if you will?!?!?!?

Thomas Jefferson believed that morality and religion should be taught in the schools. With the Congress and the Courts removing all semblance of religion from our schools it no wonder why we are on the path towards a changing morality.

If anyone knows me I am not a very religious man, more spiritual in my nature than anything else. Thomas Jefferson believed you could find common beliefs in all religions and it was those common precepts that should be taught; not the core tenets of a particular religion. An example would be the Golden Rule. Most if not all religions would agree with this tenet - thus it would be taught. Rights are innate and come from a high power. Okay, atheists may object but you could still state that there are rights that exist naturally and are not governmentally given.

We've moved a far cry from where our Founding Fathers thought we should be; its time for us as a people if we want to remain a free people to start building the bridge back to our Founding Father's constitution's original intent.