My nephew, Kolby Cobb Boatswain, III, is taking civics in middle school and came over to ask me what purpose the government played in our lives. It was an assignment from his teacher, Mrs. C Lamphrey Lighthurst, who can trace her heritage all the way back to the famous Martin Luther King March on Selma, Alabama. She claims her mother slept with one of Reverend King's aides that night in the jail, claiming it was the most exciting 15 seconds of her mother's life and she came away with little C Lamphrey and a wonderful memory.
Mrs. C Lamphrey Lighthurst has bug eyes and is an irritable woman but I will not slander her mother to guess which follower of Dr. King fired the shot in her mother's direction that hot summer night in the Selma City Jail, but his initials are JJ.
Back to Kolby's querry.
I will quote as near as possible what I told young Kolby:
"Kolby, as I see it, the government hires the barely employable to take care of the completely unemployable by taking from the eminently employable."
"Can you be more specific?" Said Kolby.
"Yes, the TSA, Transportation Security Association, and Homeland Security are recent additions to our fine
government."
"Thank you Uncle Maybolt."
"You are welcome."
Jackson Delano Maybolt, President, Urban Poverty Law Center
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