Approaching Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: Have We Gone From Community To Chaos?
Martin Luther King's last book was Where Do We Go From Here: Community Or Chaos? Ironically, when I searched it on amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com , I was unable to find a copy in stock. Resellers were offering copies on amazon. In the last few days, the major news outlets have reported the deaths of eight children, allegedly at the hands of their parents. After arguing with the children's mother, a father has confessed to throwing four of his young children off a bridge in Alabama. In Washington, DC, a mother has been charged with the homicides of her four daughters, whose bodies were found in a seriously advanced state of decomposition (non recognizable). The bodies were discovered when U.S. Marshals went to the home to serve an eviction notice. These horrific crimes, our equally tragic resignation to such occurrences (read online comments attached to some news reports of these stories if you doubt me), and our apparent powerlessness to reverse the trend of wanton ...