KING AND THE PRESIDENT
True Southerners were far too polite to participate in the debasing of public discourse that King and others of her political ilk foisted upon the American people during the Reagan-Bush years.
In my home state of Tennessee, throughout the South and everywhere Southerners gather, we hear deflating balloons like King pass their hot, stale wind into the night of obscurity toward which their hatemongering, leaky ship of ex-state sails. We smile quietly to ourselves, secure in the knowledge that we won, we won, WE WON!
Have a swig of Jack Daniels on me, Flo, and lighten up. These things do run in cycles, you know.
JONATHAN SANTORE
Mar Vista
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