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My son came home talking about Martin Luther King, Jr. this week. He learned about him in school, of course — the first one in our immediate tribe to hear about him as a fact and not a threat:<\/p>\n

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See this picture, Mommy? He’s waving hello. And he’s saying, “White people, you be nice to black people. And black people, you be nice to white people.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That about covers it.<\/p>\n

Being the public address nerd that I am, I said, “Let’s watch his speech!” And more motivated by the snuggling than the learning, he settled into my lap for a viewing.<\/p>\n

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“He said Stone Mountain, Georgia! I know where that is. That’s where the presidents heads are carved — George Washington, George Bush, and Abraham Lincoln.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Oh, so close. So, so close and so very, very far. “You’re thinking of Mount Rushmore. But we’ve been to Stone Mountain, remember? There are presidents carved into stone there, but presidents of the Confederacy.”<\/p>\n

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“What’s the Confederacy?”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sigh. . . . Where to begin. I did my best. The differences between the North’s industry and South’s agriculture. The labor-intensity of cotton. And slavery. I hate talking about slavery.<\/p>\n

I ended up at Abraham Lincoln’s conclusion that the South’s leaving the Union was no option at all. And the Blue Coats and the Grey Coats<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We listened some more and jumped ahead a hundred years to the Civil Rights Movement. I told him that right here in Greenville<\/a>, people couldn’t eat lunch in a restaurant simply because they were black. Or drink from the same water fountain or use the same bathroom.<\/p>\n

I finally sighed through saying, “And you know what, honey? Mommy has just discovered one of the most hateful sources of this racism. Right here in Greenville<\/em>. That’s Mommy’s job right now — working with God as He makes that crooked path straight.”<\/p>\n

While I was stuck in my little Public Speaking 121 lecture, I listened to this greatest speech of the 20th-century again. For the first time in a long time. King’s talking about the same thing I read during Advent<\/a>. It sounds different now than it<\/a> did in my previous life<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

No wonder King was such a threat. Shalom<\/a> is a threat. A threat to habits, isolation<\/a>, pride, greed. And King was just preaching Shalom. No, I think he was singing <\/em>it.<\/p>\n

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