Muncie Times, Muncie, Delaware County, 3 September 1992 — Page 6

The Muncie Times, Thursday, 3 September, 1992, Page 6

(from pg. 2) For instance the one about “Sickness of the Soul,” dealt with why blacks are in such a rage “Because white corporate America does not show due respect due.” And he goes on to say “opportunity is not for us...demand your rights...This is the time to unite...” r wish to say that I, for one, have a great respect

for blacks who desire to become more than a lot of prejudiced people would want. But on the same token I have a great respect for whites who desire to be more than many prejudiced people would want them to be. Nowadays everyone - - and I mean everyone, has the opportunity to be whatever they can possibly want to be. Of course, a lot of the time the problem is money. I have never had

much money in my grown-up life. I have been discriminated against because of my poverty, but I know that if I tried a little harder and got myself out of the circumstances that I was in I could have become more than I am today. I didn’t have to have three kids, I didn’t have to marry a guy who beat me and left me with the kids to raise...I could have had the same chance that

anyone could have, black or white. It is circumstances that stop a lot of people in their tracks. But sometimes you just can’t get out of the circumstances that you are into, and just keep digging deeper and deeper. But I think blacks and whites are finally starting to get along together and I hate to see anyone or anything stir up any good relationships with unrest. In the end of Mr. Wright’s story he states that we can’t outrun “them” (who is “them?”). We can’t outthink “them”. (Who is “them”?) White? Other blacks? Chinese? Eskimoes? What??? When Mr. Wright says, “We must survive and We must unite” Who is “We”??? If he is saying about an internal revolution of the soul or what? But I take this article to mean “blacks” unite against

(from pg. 5) “Sometimes I would catch the train-when I missed the bus. I would catch the train for $3 roundtrip. You could also get a pass in Indianapolis to go anywhere you wanted in the city.” Since 1926 Scott has been a Muncie resident-except for 2 years when he took off “and hoboed around.” He went to St. Louis, Mo., Cincinnati, Ohio, and also to Illinois-before returning to Muncie. Many of his siblings are gone, except for his brother, Clarence Scott, 88, who is at the Muncie Health Care Center, after suffering a stroke in Flint, Mich., and one of his sisters, Lillian Brown, about 72, who still lives in Kentucky. Asked the secret of his

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everyone, especially whites. I think Mr. Wright should temper his prejudice down just a little. With all due respect, sir, you are a good writer. But this does not help your papers cause any. We are all God’s children and everyone is wonderful in His eyes.... Mrs. Christian Muncie

The Heritage We see men as Jews or Gentiles, Catholics or Protestants, Chinese or Amer-, icans, Negroes or whites.; We fail to think of them as! fellow human beings made from the same basic stuff as we, molded in the same divine image. Martin Luther King, Jr.

longevity, Scott laughed out loud, smiled and said, “I don’t have none. I don’t have any secrets. Since I have been in the church I don’t have no secrets. There is nothing that I try to keep hidden. I think growing up on the farm may have helped. “I also take a nap during the day. And I read and keep busy.” Does he have any advice for young Munsonians? “The best advice I can give them is, ‘Stay off drugs.’ If you fool with drugs there is only one road--and it leads to destruction. Once you get into drugs you can’t get out. I don’t understand why young people can’t understand that.”