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Following the Doctor's Orders
Posted: January 14, 2007
Why Dr. King's prescription for racial inequality needs to be acts on…
I think we've really come quite far
since Doctor MLK, JR
prescribed a medication
for our nation's skin disease.
What Martin clearly diagnosed
reflects how quickly bias grows
when prejudice is overlooked
or countenanced as right.
The good Doc's remedy was clear.
We start by looking in the mirror
and taking stock of how we tend
to justify our hate.
And then he said to exercise
(not with our legs but with our eyes)
by being blind to color
as we look at those God made.
But then the doctor left us quick.
He died when we were still quite sick.
And yet in the past forty years
we're on the road to health.
Our skin disease is clearing up.
We're drinking from a common cup.
And as we swallow pride,
we taste our true equality.
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Greg Asimakoupoulos (pronounced AWESOME-uh-COPE-uh-less) is an ordained minister, published author and chaplain to a retirement community in the Pacfic Northwest. Greg maintains a blog called Rhymes and Reasons, which he graciously provides to SeniorLifestyle.Greg's writings have now been assembled in book form. See the SeniorLifestyle Store. • E-mail the author (moc.loa@veRemosewA*) • Author's website (personal or primary**)
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