So I Watched 'Bobby' This Morning..

I watched 'Bobby', a movie about Robert F. Kennedy's run for president in 1968. While watching this I realized how little I actually knew about RFK. I mean everybody knows who his brother is(JFK), but how many of us know anything about Robert, besides the fact that he was Attorney General, and some folks don't even know that. So googled him, just cuz I like to stay knowledgeable about a variety of topics. Well RFK did alot of positive things on our behalf(black folks)as far as civil rights goes, although he may have Ok'd some dumb shit (like wiretapping MLK Jr for suspected communism, yeah real dumb) I read about a trip he made to South Africa to speak out against Apartheid(look it up) He was quoted in a magazine and he said something that I felt was quite profound and progressive for a white American man of affluence to think/say aloud..

"At the University of Natal in Durban, I was told the church to which most of the white population belongs teaches apartheid as a moral necessity. A questioner declared that few churches allow black Africans to pray with the white because the Bible says that is the way it should be, because God created Negroes to serve. 'But suppose God is black', I replied. 'What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?' There was no answer. Only silence."

I don't know how you feel about that statement but its pretty damn deep to me..Sure you or I have probably thought that, but a white guy in 1966 said this publically. Quite profound in my opinion. My point is Bobby Kennedy doesn't get enough credit for the things he has done to bring about equal rights for all citizens of this country. He is often dwarfed by the legend and the shadow of his older brother JFK, but RFK was a giant of a different kind.