This idea brought me back to Martin’s contention that Americans are somewhat unique in that a smaller percentage of them are mere victims of historical chance and circumstances. For most of us anyway there was no overwhelming ground control that pushed us this way and that. Back during the Civil Rights nightmare dad had startled me by saying that if he was a black man getting pushed around he’d likely go to war against the whites. I was all for Martin Luther King and dad sounded like Malcolm X.
