Not My First Rodeo
One of my favorite lyrics ever written comes from the song Rebel by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers ..."I've got one foot in the grave and one foot on the pedal, I was born to rebel." I can so identify with those words. As a white man currently in my sixties, living in the South, who believes that black lives actually do matter, I sometimes feel like I'm swimming a bit upstream. But, this is not something new for me. It's not just the "flavor of the month." Not just the coolest trend to jump on board and quickly jump off when the newer cooler thing comes along. It's kind of in my blood and my history... When I was about 10 years old, my father's best friend lived on the other side of Houston (which at that time seemed like the other side of the world). They and their wives would get together about four times a year. Twice at our house and twice at theirs. When it was at our house...no problem. When it was at theirs...big problem. Dad