I guess I'm not a true American patriot

[AverageOldGuy]

4. I'm at the same point

I'm 80. Born (1944) and reared in deep south Mississippi in the 1950's -- as a white kid, I was on the good side of the color line, Jim Crow did not bother me.

At age 11, when my little rural town was about the feel the effects of Brown v Board of Education, the preacher at our Baptist church preached from the pulpit that "The idea the little white children should go to school with little Negro children is a lie from Satan." I was not too sure of that.

At age 18 I left and have never looked back. As a college student in Alabama in the 1960's I marched in B'ham, Montgomery, and Selma. And now all that is being crushed.

I lie awake nights worrying about the country my two grandsons will grow up in.

At my age I may live another 15 minutes or another 15 years. But whatever it is, I WILL NOT "GO SOFTLY INTO THAT DARK NIGHT."

Amos 5:24
But let justice roll on like a river,
righteousness like a never-failing stream!