March 30, 1968
by Amy
We have a meeting with my Father tomorrow. Glasses was very happy to get the invitation to be interviewed. Though he’s spoken with plenty of reporters in the past, he’s used to be misquoted. But he thinks that my Father will be more neutral than the others. I assured him that Dad is a pretty fair guy who was having difficulty swallowing what the establishment was telling him about most things.
It’s hard for my Dad these days. If he comes off too sympathetic to what’s going on, he’ll lose his credibility with the editors. He says that he can’t take a hard approach to what’s happening because that’s not true. It’s not what he’s seeing.
His job is to tell people what’s going on around them. If he gets any hostility in return, its because people want to remain blind to the truth.
I admire my Father, and I’m secretly proud of him.
The other thing Glasses and I talked about today was the problem in Memphis. He’s terribly concerned about how the King rally ended. People of all walks of life have been taught nonviolence. They’ve been taught not to respond in kind to bottles and bats. So why did it happen? What happened to make the participants of the march start looting?
I don’t know, but as Glasses says, it’s not good. In fact, it’s a huge setback.
