When it comes to my adopted country’s political season,
where best to look for moral direction than Canada – my home and native land.
For those of you who didn’t see it on Facebook, check out
this post
Are Canadians too smug in their modesty? We’d rather not
stake such a claim.
Consider my recent post about the quote I discovered from
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: “Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”
My childhood pal Frederick Harrison points out that this
quote – and many many others – received
wide distribution in Canada in November 1967 (and to radio listeners around the
world from the dynamic ideas program, The Massey Lectures on CBC Radio).
Here is the link to those lectures: http://bit.ly/2eL2a7g
As I wrote to Frederick in a recent commentary, the Massey
Lectures have been truly formative in my thinking, travel and have shaped the
way I see the world. Most important for me was the 1984 Carlos Fuentes, "Latin America At War With the Past" that I listened to during the days I was employed as assistant night editor at the Windsor Star. Just a few months before I'd returned from three months living in Mexico (with a one-week tour of Cuba). In January 1985, I was back in Cuba, and in July, to Nicaragua where I wrote news articles during the sixth anniversary of the Sandinista revolution.
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