Where do we stand in the area of tolerance and prejudice? Do we allow the news to guide our thinking? Do we work to see the good in others or do we believe that one bad apple spoils the whole bunch? These are tough questions but things can easily be changed with the right words and attitudes regarding those who have weaknesses or who are different. To have a friend one must first show themselves to be friendly.Īll men are created equal and that everyone has within himself the power to make this a better world Is this something that we do today or better yet do we teach our kids to help others who are the victims of bullying, abuse or alienation. They worked to see the good in others and when someone was headed down the wrong path they tried to help them right their wrongs. They befriended others and took the time to cultivate relationships with the good guys and yes at times the bad guys as well.
They cared for each other and had a loyalty that is rarely seen today. They stood back to back for what was right and just. The Lone Ranger had Tonto and they were inseparable. Where do we start? Well let’s see what we can begin to do to change ourselves first, then how we can help others by using some of The Lone Ranger’s moral code. First in one circle and then in others until the masses believe that they all have the ability to make a difference. One person can make a difference in this world and slowly but surely the tide begins to change. We need to teach our kids some of the qualities of the Lone Ranger and help them begin to believe that they have the ability to make changes in this world. We live in a world today that is so filled with intolerance, disrespect, irresponsibility and at times hatred that one may ask: why bother trying to use his standard to live by? I ask why not: Remember his name, The Lone Ranger, one man who was trying to make the world a better place. That to have a friend, a man must be one/ that all men are created equal and that everyone has within himself the power to make this a better world/ that God put the firewood there but that every man must gather and light it himself/ in being prepared physically, mentally, and morally and to fight when necessary for what is right/ that a man should make the most of what equipment he has/ that ‘this government, of the people, by the people and for the people’ shall live always/ that men should live by the rule of what is best for the greatest number/ that sooner or later …somewhere…somehow…we must settle with the world and make payment for what we have taken/ that all things change but truth, and that truth alone, lives on forever/ in his Creator, his country, and his fellow man. He had the ability to disarm the perpetrator using both physical and verbal means. He was consistent, never changed, and even when he had to use his gun he never shot to kill but rather to disarm.
The Lone Ranger lived by a certain moral code. It’s fiction, but as I watched it I came to realize that this show was not just for its entertainment qualities but how it depicted what was right with the world and how one man could make a difference.
THE LEGEND OF THE LONE RANGER SERIES
Why is this story so important today? A radio and television series that ran in the late 1940’s through the mid 50’s that I didn’t even have an opportunity to watch, and really didn’t understand what the Lone Ranger represented until very recently while watching retro television. The Indian’s name was Tonto and Reid the lone surviving ranger from the ambush became The Lone Ranger.
To aid in the deception, the Indian digs a sixth grave and places at its head a cross bearing Reid’s name so that Cavendish and his gang would believe that all of the Rangers had been killed. To conceal his identity and honor his fallen brother, Reid fashions a black domino mask using cloth from his late brother’s vest. Among the Rangers killed was the survivor’s older brother, Daniel Reid, who was a captain in the Texas Rangers and the leader of the ambushed group. The Indian gave the man named Reid a ring and the name Kemo Sabe, which means “trusty scout”. The Indian recognizes the lone survivor as the man who saved his life when they both were children. Later, an Indian stumbles onto the scene and discovers one ranger is barely alive, and he nurses the man back to health. The legend has it that a posse of six members of the Texas Ranger Division pursuing a band of outlaws led by Bartholomew “Butch” Cavendish is betrayed by a civilian guide named Collins and is ambushed in a canyon named Bryant’s Gap.
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