10.05.11
Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth NPR coverage Washington Post Steve Jobs Washington Post Forbes @TinuTinu Abayomi-Paul It’s incredible that 2 such greats should die on the same day, one to worldwide emotional outpouring, the other barely noticed…Oct 06 via webFavoriteRetweetReply At the time, I’d just come back online after trying to sleep for hours. So I heard both pieces of news about an hour apart. Was just sitting there thinking whether I’d even be able to go into a store to buy an iPad/Pod/Phone at the time… had Reverend Shuttlesworth and Dr. King not lived. I mean, I don’t think there is anything amiss in the way Steve Jobs is being celebrated. Even friends who hated Apple feverishly admit that at worst his leadership at Apple demanded other companies up their game. And in a way, the world the Civil Rights movement was trying to make was one in which Civil Rights issues weren’t major enough to make headlines. So it’s not that I’m bitter that the world isn’t stopping for the Reverend the way the world is stopping for Jobs. It’s just that the two things happening so close together, and so many people around me feeling so many emotions made me have to retreat for a minute and get my bearings. It’s like all I could hear was the world sobbing at varying pitches of sadness. An acquaintance disclosed that he cried upon reading the word “was” on Steve Jobs Wikipedia page. I said: I feel you.