Little Museums ([info]heartgut) wrote,
@ 2009-07-09 13:12:00
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Goodbye, Doctor Bob. I'll miss your brilliance, your righteous anger, and your agapic love.

More than anybody I'm sure he'd be pissed that the fifteen year old who knocked him off his bike as part of a gang initiation is being tried for homicide as an adult. In his own words, "gangs are just role playing with ritualistic fight... that occasionally goes overboard."

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[info]zachariahskylab
2009-07-09 06:00 pm UTC (link)
Thank you for your post. While I was reading the comments following one of the articles about his death I found one that was really angry saying something like, 'I hope they throw the book at the kid who did this as an ADULT!'

While I understand the anger, I think whoever wrote that has a certain misunderstanding about the way Dr. Bob saw the world and society around him. Of course this is a gross metaphor, but it's as if you read the gospel of Mark and after finishing you say, "I hope all those people who killed Jesus rot in hell for eternity!" Obviously a fundamental principle of the text has been missed if that's your reaction.

Now I'm not trying to compare Dr. Bob to Jesus, but I do think in his own quiet, unpretentious way, that he was something of a saint in the city of Toledo. I knew he was involved in a lot of different things in the city but since his death I've learned that there was a lot more going on with him than I was aware of.

Anyways, I definitely felt a kind of heartbreak, not for Dr. Bob so much as for Toledo itself, which lost one if its leading, (although not publically,) citizens at a time when it needs people like him the most.

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