Farewell

Today the news was announced that Mrs. Coretta Scott King has passed away. I heard the news while driving to work and listening to the Steve Harvey morning show on WBLS. I think her passing saddened me even more than the passing just a few months ago of Rosa Parks. Both women were definitely female icons of the civil rights movements. Women who gave to the struggle for which I now reap the benefits. Steve Harvey took a moment to expound on the greatness that was Coretta Scott King. In the years since her husband's death she continued to work for that in which he believed. Indeed as Steve pointed out he could not have been the man that he was had she not been the woman than she was. How many women would be ready to sacrifice their husband for other people? How many women would be tolerant and supportive of a servant husband traveling many hours, bringing heat on the home with threats, bombs and fires? How many women after their husband's death would continue to work for what he believed and not go on with their life with a new man? A woman of strength, character and conviction. Farewell...