The Power of Love and Hearing
My dad’s business was vandalized and looted in the Cincinnati riots of 1967-68, yet what concerned him was not his losses, but the injustices and racism that sparked the riots. He empathized with the people who were suffering so much. I don’t know if he had heard the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., say that the riot is the language of the unheard, [1] but my dad certainly understood that truth. I was just an adolescent at the time, but my dad’s words and sentiment about the people who were protesting, and his valuing these people’s yearning for basic human rights and fairness made an impression on me. I will never forget it. My dad, Winfield Wayne "Whit" White, 1923-2011 So after I listened to the audio stream of the Sanibel City Council meeting on June 2, I had to write these words in Facebook: “It troubles me that the discussion at the beginning of today's Sanibel city council meeting seemed to focus on the council members' concerns about t...