I visited Detroit with a heart needed to be reconciled with slaves who escaped a plantation in Kentucky. Grandma gave me letters from these slaves that I wanted to ask forgiveness, and extend friendship and relationship to descendants of someone who had affectionate ties to the plantation. The letter that he wrote exhibited he LOVED his master, but he didn´t want to be a slave. It was powerful. His name was Ellis. I went to the library trying to find black people by the name of Ellis. Went to the African Black Museum, and left offended, angry, that they had tributes to Nelson Mandela who had NOTHING to do with the HISTORY of American Slavery. Not ONE SINGLE MENTION of a white person like Abraham Lincoln, or the 238,000 white soldiers of the North who fought for their freedom. Their whole story of bitterness and antagonism left me cold. The culture needs to change in Detroit.
A Viet Nam veteran, God Bless Him, was selling poppy flowers, he was drinking and I didn´t WANT to give him $1.00 for his flower for him to go drink. Spat on me, cursed me and I felt unsafe. The people at the Local McDonald´s didn´t speak English, they spoke Ebony. Al Sharpton needs to go to work on his own race and household,.
Frederick Douglass´s fine Autobiography the first half talked of slavery. This was a tragedy. The second half he talked about descrimination, but that he made a point that the descrimination wouldn´t end until the Black Nation learned to act in respect, and exhibited a culture that people would DESIRE to be their neighbor. We do have a lot to learn in 2013, and Mr. Obama, Eric Holder and Al Sharpton are not the teachers.
You have nothing to apologize for; you did not do it.
A Viet Nam veteran, God Bless Him, was selling poppy flowers, he was drinking and I didn´t WANT to give him $1.00 for his flower for him to go drink.
The American Legion holds the “Buddy Poppy” drive. I’m sure they don’t allow drunks to represent them. Chances are the “veteran” was a con artist.