”It’s time to salute the Constitution,”…Frank M. Johnson

It is hard not to be overwhelmed if not giddy over all of the current dialogue that we, almost a unified nation, have failed to have over the past 8 years. Civil rights, women’s rights, education, health care, THE CONSTITUTION.   I see people standing up….when in regard to their social circles, it is probably easier not to.

My mind drifts back to Judge Frank M. Johnson. Once called “The Most Hated Man in Alabama” he is one of my father’s (and my own) most revered heroes. He is the judge who took on Governor Wallace and cleared the way for the Selma March when it would have been much easier for him to sit quiet, roll with the good ole’ boys, and not have his and his family’s lives threatened by the KKK. He’s been on my mind a lot lately.

Here is an  old editorial by HOWELL RAINES