Remember how pleasantly surprised you were last Wednesday when our twenty-four-hour media information complexes broke away from their near constant coverage of breaking news to cover, live, Senator Romney’s final speech as a Senator of these United States of America?
First, my apologies for attributing to Brother Eddie your insightful and uplifting offering. Clearly I’m losing the footrace with encroaching senility!!
Second, thanks for reminding me of having met you when you accompanied Paul to my home (that right?) with several Men of Morehouse. I confess that on that occasion I was so deeply moved by having in my presence men so well established on career paths of significant teaching, scholarship, and more that I had to work hard to maintain my composure and not burst into tears of prideful joy. You men add to my confidence that as I fade from the scene, the ongoing struggles to sustain the well-being of our people while continuing bring forth and sustain the democratic experiment of a United States of America will be carried forward by y’all and others. Meanwhile, it is my fervent commitment to have a say about Ellison’s “The Little Man at Chehaw Station” that will be, I hope, a contribution to the envisioning of what, as a democratic republic of diverse persons and peoples, our troubled country might ought to be about.
Keep at it, Brother Mark, knowing with certainty that this ol’ man is cheering you along with prideful joy…
Very inspiring! A person doesn’t need any rewards when they know that they have done the right thing.
Well said Sir Eddie. Well said…
LTOJr
This is actually Mark Jefferson, Lou. He writes a regular column for A Native Son.
Aaaaaaahhh! My bad! Thanks Sir…
We met in Nashville a couple of years ago--I'm a friend of Paul Taylor as well. We talked a lot about The Little Man at Chehaw Station.
Good Brother Mark,
First, my apologies for attributing to Brother Eddie your insightful and uplifting offering. Clearly I’m losing the footrace with encroaching senility!!
Second, thanks for reminding me of having met you when you accompanied Paul to my home (that right?) with several Men of Morehouse. I confess that on that occasion I was so deeply moved by having in my presence men so well established on career paths of significant teaching, scholarship, and more that I had to work hard to maintain my composure and not burst into tears of prideful joy. You men add to my confidence that as I fade from the scene, the ongoing struggles to sustain the well-being of our people while continuing bring forth and sustain the democratic experiment of a United States of America will be carried forward by y’all and others. Meanwhile, it is my fervent commitment to have a say about Ellison’s “The Little Man at Chehaw Station” that will be, I hope, a contribution to the envisioning of what, as a democratic republic of diverse persons and peoples, our troubled country might ought to be about.
Keep at it, Brother Mark, knowing with certainty that this ol’ man is cheering you along with prideful joy…
Lou Outlaw
Soooo right on point. A loss for all of us.