Wise words from Tyler Patterson

This week, Tyler's school has focused on a good bit on Martin Luther King, Jr. His teacher is very passionate about Civil Rights, and I really think a lot of her, so I knew Tyler would come home with some good lines.

Monday- "We read a book about a king. His birthday is this week and a white man shot him. Did you know that there used to be neighborhoods of only white people and neighborhoods of only black people? I told Mrs. Moore that was CRAZY."

Tuesday- "When Mrs Moore was a girl, she was coming out of a mall with her dad and a man rushed up to them and asked if they had heard. They said no and the man told them that Dr. King had been killed. Mrs. Moore cried and cried. And it all happened in Memphis. They turned his hotel into a museum and I think we should go Monday and see it."

Wednesday- "When Mrs. Moore was a girl, white kids would call her brother names. And do you know what he did? (Tyler balled up his fist and punched.) Those white boys got tired of that, so they stopped calling him names.

Mrs. Moore was absent today, or I am sure she would have made some sort of mark on Tyler again today. She is a good woman and I am so pleased that Tyler has her for his teacher.