As the saying goes the best medicine is prevention. This saying gives value to being intentional about your well-being on the front end, which decreases the likelihood of experiencing certain diseases. The opposite of preventing a disease, would be allowing the sickness to run its course. To allow a sickness to run its course can take the form of receiving no treatment at all, and often results in a delayed response. For major diseases a delayed response is a factor of life and death.
I listened to Tyre Nichols' eulogy being delivered by Rev. Al Sharpton, and he spoke to the insult, to civil rights leaders in witnessing 5 African American officers kill an African American man. A man that was questionably stopped, pulled out of his car, unjustly beaten, was beaten when restrained, and ultimately was denied aide from the officers and other first responders. It was an insult considering that the privileges that those officers enjoyed, was paved by Martin Luther King Jr. who notably stood with the City of Memphis sanitation employees declaring their dignity and their right to quality wages and work facilities. Sharpton said there's nothing more offensive to those who fought to open doors, for those who walked through those doors to only act like the people they had to fight against to open the doors.
I agree that King would feel disgraced with those that murdered Tyre Nichols, and I believe he would identify them as suffering from a neglected illness. King himself was stabbed by a black woman (Izola Ware Curry) in Harlem. Of all the places that King could've been stabbed, knowing that he was stabbed in Harlem is hard to believe. Harlem is considered a mecca for Black Americans, the arts, fashion, entrepreneurial success, the cuisine, a model of a thriving middle class, the Renaissance are all enshrined in the streets of Harlem. Of all the people, that could've stabbed King, again being at the hands of a black woman is hard to digest. Although, it is out of context to ignore that Curry suffered from Schizophrenia Paranoia for at least 20 years before she stabbed King, it was a mental illness that went untreated, and allowed to run its course.
While delivering his Mountain Top speech the night before he was killed in Memphis, King talked about when he was recovering from being stabbed and that if he would have sneezed his aorta would've have been punctured by blade of the envelope opener that was lodged in his chest cavity. King also alluded to a specific illness several times in his speech.
The first reference is "The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land; confusion all around". The second reference is "Mayor Loeb is in dire need of a doctor", and the last reference is " and then I got into Memphis, and some began to say the threats, or talk about the threats that were out. What would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers".
I listened to Tyre Nichols' eulogy being delivered by Rev. Al Sharpton, and he spoke to the insult, to civil rights leaders in witnessing 5 African American officers kill an African American man. A man that was questionably stopped, pulled out of his car, unjustly beaten, was beaten when restrained, and ultimately was denied aide from the officers and other first responders. It was an insult considering that the privileges that those officers enjoyed, was paved by Martin Luther King Jr. who notably stood with the City of Memphis sanitation employees declaring their dignity and their right to quality wages and work facilities. Sharpton said there's nothing more offensive to those who fought to open doors, for those who walked through those doors to only act like the people they had to fight against to open the doors.
I agree that King would feel disgraced with those that murdered Tyre Nichols, and I believe he would identify them as suffering from a neglected illness. King himself was stabbed by a black woman (Izola Ware Curry) in Harlem. Of all the places that King could've been stabbed, knowing that he was stabbed in Harlem is hard to believe. Harlem is considered a mecca for Black Americans, the arts, fashion, entrepreneurial success, the cuisine, a model of a thriving middle class, the Renaissance are all enshrined in the streets of Harlem. Of all the people, that could've stabbed King, again being at the hands of a black woman is hard to digest. Although, it is out of context to ignore that Curry suffered from Schizophrenia Paranoia for at least 20 years before she stabbed King, it was a mental illness that went untreated, and allowed to run its course.
While delivering his Mountain Top speech the night before he was killed in Memphis, King talked about when he was recovering from being stabbed and that if he would have sneezed his aorta would've have been punctured by blade of the envelope opener that was lodged in his chest cavity. King also alluded to a specific illness several times in his speech.
The first reference is "The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land; confusion all around". The second reference is "Mayor Loeb is in dire need of a doctor", and the last reference is " and then I got into Memphis, and some began to say the threats, or talk about the threats that were out. What would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers".