Edmonson could use a history lesson | Columnists
The Black community in Laurel-Jones County needs genuine role models and facts purveyors — not crooks who exploit gullible people. For Brothers William and Leonard Safir(e) compiled in Words of Wisdom, “Let us suspect all rumors whether about events or persons … When you are told a rumor, do not swallow it like a hungry pike. Say ‘Show me your facts. And before you accept them be sure they are the whole facts and not half facts.’”
Now, based upon recent things in Laurel surrounding MLK — who is shallowly perceived and depicted by people talking only about “a Dream” — the writer reflects on MLK speaking on April 4, 1954, on the 11th Commandment — Thou shalt not get caught. MLK stated: “It doesn’t matter what you do, but just don’t get caught. This attitude has led to a philosophy of the survival of the slickest (Thaddeus Edmondson’s coterie). It says, it’s all right to lie, but just do it with a bit of finesse (use Hattiesburg American) … But my friends, we must come to see that some things are right and some things are wrong, whether we get caught or not. This universe hinges on moral foundations,” Dr. King accented!
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