A bunch of second-handers

Posted by Robbie53024 11 years ago to News

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Posted by IndianaGary 11 years ago

Why should I care one way or another? The issue is totally pointless.

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  Posted by LetsShrug 11 years ago
  
  Yes. Not my laundry.
  
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Posted by Herb7734 11 years ago

Knowing who King was and his influence of history, the heirs should simply donate the things. However, their greed is showing and second-hander is an appropriate title for them.

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  Posted by allosaur 11 years ago
  
  Did this opinion really deserve to have a point taken down to zero?
  "Why should anyone's heirs simply donate things?" shoulda been simply asked. Anyhoo, I donated a +1 back to Herb.
  And if the subtrator does not like it--Nyah! Nyah! Nyah!
  C'mon, take my +1 for merely posting.
  Sock it to me! Sock it to me!
  
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    Posted by Robbie53024 11 years ago
    
    There was probably some negativity regarding the sentiment to "donate." Not sure why.
    
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      Posted by Herb7734 11 years ago
      
      I didn't say anything about compelling them to donate. It doesn't appear as if they need the $$ and the pieces in question are notable historic items. Of course, being an old (make that elderly) gentleman, I eschew tension and conflict in my life, which is why I tend to eliminate contentiousness and recommend letting the multitudes view the remnants of the great man rather than have unseemly fighting over them.
      
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        Posted by Robbie53024 11 years ago
        
        I think the benefactors are merely interested in what they can bleed off of a legacy they had next to nothing in creating. Second-handers.
        
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        Posted by allosaur 11 years ago
        
        I think a nail just got hit on the head.
        
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        Posted by allosaur 11 years ago
        
        I gave you another +1 because unlike you I look for trouble.
        I am dino--
        Hear me roar!
        
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        Posted by Herb7734 11 years ago
        
        I used to be that way. I can still get that way, but only for my grandson's amusement.
        
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        Posted by allosaur 11 years ago
        
        I'm fully retired. Look out when I get bored.
        
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Posted by CircuitGuy 11 years ago

I have learned from my wife's legal practice that more mundane disputes over whether to sell things like grandpa's antique guns are common. It seems like most probates have one such dispute in some form.

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Posted by LetsShrug 11 years ago

Are you judging them by the content of their character?

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  Posted by Robbie53024 11 years ago
  
  certainly not by the color of their skin.
  
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Posted by blarman 11 years ago

What an utterly pointless dispute. Sad, really.

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Posted by Susanne 11 years ago

I'm not really sure Dr. King Jr. would care one way or the other at this point. He might have - back in '67 or so. Now? Not likely.

The traveling bible - even his medal - are just things. IMO they should be kept for posterity, and if the kids want to exchange them for fiat currency, well, that's who they are. Maybe someone will buy them and donate them to something like the Smithsonian or a University collection. That they've been picking over Dr. King's corpse so long, to me, just tells me what "birds of a feather" they are... kind of sad...

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  Posted by Robbie53024 11 years ago
  
  And not "children of the father."
  
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A bunch of second-handers

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