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I've been reading about the Mayor of Newark. He's a young man with a degree from Yale Law School and he's living in the blighted portions of Newark. He started his campaign to clean up the inner city with a stent in a tent beside a drug-drenched housing complex. He is among the residents recently evicted from a condemned apartment building where he had lived for eight years.
The article says some accuse Mayor Cory Booker of grandstanding. Purposefully spending eight years of your life walking up 16 floors to an often unheated apartment when your income is six-figures is not grandstanding. Only other one I can think of who would let their passion carry them that far and that long would be Jesus.
I have noticed that 'do-gooder' is a title bestowed with a hint of derision. Books and movies often portray 'do-gooders' as eccentric, out-of-touch with reality persons who are barely tolerated by those who know them. Funny thing, though, is how often the 'do-gooders' do not even notice the scorn because they are so busy giving of themselves to those who need a friendly boost.
When Mayor Booker's assistant was helping him decide what to discard prior to his moving out of the condemned building, the assistant insisted on discarding:
The magenta “praise the Lord” throw pillows
Surely do wish I'd been there to retrieve one of those pillows--and I don't even like magenta!!
Jane Mullikin
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