Dick Gregory

                                                         I must suspend today's Consideration, my ribs hurt and I am famished .

                               Before I leave I will introduce my Younger Readers to Dick Gregory and his NO MORE LIES  ---  THE MYTH AND THE REALITY OF AMERICAN HISTORY .   

                              On the back cover  Gregory writes :   "I've become increasingly impressed with the fact that the original patriots in this country always ended up on the side of the oppressed, but those who claim to be patriots today always end up on the side of the oppressor .  Something is wrong .   What is wrong is that America believes her Myths rather than essential moral values---the sort of values articulated in America's most basic documents."

                              He adds :

                              [George Washington] "made history books because he led a violent revolution against the British---shot and killed everyone he could get his hands on .   But America would rather remember him as a man who could not lie, than a man who took pretty good aim."  

                             

                                                           Tare Forward and Keep the Faith