Emphasis Preaching Journal
For more than a year...
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For more than a year, the nation has been convulsed by the arrest and beating of Rodney King in California, and by the violence which followed the acquittal of the officers involved.
Many of us wondered what King looked like, and never knew until he appeared on newscasts with a message of reconciliation, "Can't we just get along?"
Scores of letters on the incidents appeared in our local paper. I was most touched by one which read, in part,
"I am writing an older white woman's view ... because I am compelled to, not because I am wise.
Many of us wondered what King looked like, and never knew until he appeared on newscasts with a message of reconciliation, "Can't we just get along?"
Scores of letters on the incidents appeared in our local paper. I was most touched by one which read, in part,
"I am writing an older white woman's view ... because I am compelled to, not because I am wise.