Soon after King’s death was announced, Al Sharpton issued a statement saying, "Rodney King was a symbol of civil rights and he represented the anti-police brutality and anti-racial profiling movement of our time. Through all that he had gone through with his beating and his personal demons he was never one to not call for reconciliation and for people to overcome and forgive."Sharpton is absolutely right.
his standard was always referred to with humor, but it was not funny and truer words have not been spoken before or since. his plea for us all to "get along and stop scaring older people and kids". any one who can hear those words today and laugh never got and probably never will that is sad.
"Maybe if more of us were straight up with ourselves and others about who we are, as King tried to be, maybe then his iconic request would make sense".
