Wings of a Bird

We need to hear more voices of reason on the air and Peaceful Muslims? Two sides speak up loudly - 2 related pieces by Susan Paytner, Seattle P-I columnist
... I had also rented the movie "Bobby." It ends with an eerily timely speech made in Cleveland by Robert F. Kennedy the day after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and just two months before Kennedy was shot down.
"This is the violence that ... poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors," RFK said. "When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ threaten your freedom or your job or family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies. ...
" We learn to look at our brothers as aliens, men with whom we share a city but not a community ... Surely we can learn, at least, to look at those around us as fellow men, and surely we can begin to work a little harder to bind up the wounds among us and to become, in our own hearts, brothers and countrymen once again."
Now that's the kind of aspiring and inspiring eloquence none of our ears often hear on the radio or anywhere else in these fear-fueled days.
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... Lines in the column about brotherhood versus fear from a speech by Bobby Kennedy just before his death hit Hugh Remash as silly. Hugh has one brother, and he lives in New Hampshire. He does "not consider the fellow walking down the street my brother." ...