Everything Must Change

Just because their fathers and husbands were men of vision, doesn't mean their dream is still alive. At some point you have to have to move to the next level. Leave the past behind. When they took their last breath, their work was over. Both of these men of God did their part. Mrs. King died with the name Mrs. King, and Mrs. Patterson can do the same. Both women will always be first ladies. Martin Luther King and G.E. Patterson provided a healthy inheritance for their families. Based on the families recent court actions it just wasn't good enough. Martin Luther King died forty years ago. His wife nor either of his four children have done anything but manage his legacy or peddle his name every since. King's most famous speech was "a check for insufficient funds." That doesn't give the King family a lifetime pass to the pockets of blacks. There is only so many times, we can send that check through. If it hasn't been cashed yet. Eventually we have to write it off as a bad debt.


Today I read the newspaper and Sister Louise Patterson is suing her nephew Milton Hawkins the newly elected pastor and his church the Temple Of Deliverance. It seems there is a discrepancy in how the money is being divided. Mrs. Patterson still owns the tapes being played on television every week and the land on which the church is built. I have always thought she was too involved in the affairs of the church. She wants the same input or more than she had when her husband was alive. In my heart I believe Bishop Patterson was an anointed leader and he knew his wife. His intent was not to upset the order of the church. I believe he left his wife what he wanted her to have. I don't blame her for trying to keep getting what she can get. The people love her and want to see her treated like the Bishop's wife. Having said that, I don't blame Pastor Hawkins for doing what he did either. It's like having a phantom Bishop that gets part of the collections. Anything with two heads is unnatural. Taking it to court only delays it temporarily. Everything must change.