[Dialogue] Food for thought: James Forman and MLK

[Lucille Chagnon]

   I just got around to scanning Thursday's ICH (Information Clearing House), and an article about Bush in the Black Commentator led me to one about James Forman who died last week at 76, the age MLK would have been this year.  To get to the Forman article, click on the URL below and when the Black Commentator comes up,click on the contents line (along the right edge, below the issue date).  
    Having grown up playing baseball with the neighborhood guys (but of course only when they needed a 9th player) and rooting madly for the Red Sox (in the days of Williams, Pesky, Doerr, and Dom DiMaggio), the Asterisk article was very sobering too.  Parenthetically:  I am convinced that the curse had nothing to do with Ruth and everything to do with Robinson on whom the Sox had first dibs--a N? Are you kidding?  Even as an adult, I never knew how racist my home state was until I learned, a few short years ago, what the Sox, Boston, and the fans did to Jackie Robinson.  This year's line-up allowed me to cheer once again, not for my old team, but for a crazy new team and for an owner and a manager who, at least from all appearances, have their heart in the right place.  
   Anyway, check out the URL below.  The long articles that follow it are worth your while.  The cartoon is painfully good too.

http://www.blackcommentator.com