I
place the I have a dream speech here in its entirety below. It is one
of the greatest speeches in American History and for those of us who
have empathy especially in view of the dastardly presidency
of Donald Trump which has enveloped our nation it guarantees us to shed
a tear. He and those who defend Trump have spit on our Constitution.
Listen to this speech by the great Martin Luther King and hope our
nation can reverse all that has been done by Trump and his Republicans
to erase equality for all people in this country who have worked so hard
to get it. We who yearn for justice share Martin Luther King's dream!
Monday, January 20, 2020
From Martin Luther King, Barack Obama to Trump
I watched and listened again
to the Martin Luther King "I Have a Dream" speech delivered at the March
on Washington on August 28, 1963. The speech in magnificent totality
ends by saying:
"...
we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black
men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be
able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual
Free at last! Free at last!
Thank God almighty we are free at last"
tears
rolled down my face. My tears were composed of equal ingredients happy
and sad. Tears of happiness because the nation until the present time
had worked to achieve some of King's dream. The 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson SCOTUS decision which said separate can be in fact equal was overturned by the 1954 Brown v. the Board of Education
momentous decision that found separate is inherently unequal paving the
way for the integration of public schools across the nation. Further
efforts were made to root out the decidedly unfair and unjust
consequences of being born black in this country such as the 1967 Loving v. Virginia
another SCOTUS decision allowing interracial couples to love whom they
choose and marry if they want. More decisions rained down ensuring
one's birth could not dictate where one chooses to live, eat or what
section in a movie theater one decides to sit.
The Alabama bus boycott of 1955 initiated by Rosa Parks who bravely refused to sit in the back of the bus helped
erase the noxious rule that black people had to sit in the back of the
bus because the front was reserved for whites. Ultimately landmark civil
rights law would be enacted in the 1964 Civil Rights Act which outlawed
discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national
origin. When one examines the advancement of persons of color through
the present one is
heartened by the immense progress that has been made. The election of
the first black president of the United States, Barack Obama, would
become a seminal moment in the struggle for civil rights that was
previously thought unthinkable and impossible. It became not only
thinkable but quite possible.
How
on God's earth did this nation achieve all the aforementioned equality
and then elect, perhaps, the most malevolent, evil, racist and corrupt
president in US history, Donald Trump? A closeted hateful white
supremacist and malignant narcissist calling himself a right wing
nationalist became its 45th president ignoring the win of a Democrat by
using the archaic electoral college to bypass a popular Democratic
victory and place him in office. While my tears are those of part
happiness sadness still composes them as our republic now sits teetering
in precarious balance because no law and no court decision in favor of
human rights can erase the deep entrenched white racism that has always existed in this land. It is why the Republican Party today and its leadership are nearly all white.
The
journey from slavery to freedom is still long and while the the arc of
freedom bends towards justice it can also back up and reverse itself
into many years of social injustice yet again. Donald Trump has given
voice to the heretofore voiceless white supremacists, Proud Boys, Ku
Klux Kansmen, gun advocates, well armed militias and other right wing
extremists ready to sing Dixie while they threaten and advocate the
overthrow of this nation.
He calls some American Nazis and tiki torch carriers good people as
good as those protesting them. Sorry, Mr. Trump Nazi's are not good
people. They are vicious anti Semites, racists and they are killers.
Hitler
was a white nationalist. Right wing Nationalism is mean, it is cruel,
it is evil and it stands gun ready to overthrow the government of this
country sanctioned by the dog whistle of this nation's historically
worst president who says he can shoot someone in Time Square and get
away with it. He is being impeached on this day to see whether he can
get away with other nefarious activities through the entire control of a
Republican Party which loves money and power over truth and allegiance
to the ideals of this balance of power nation. His henchmen in that
party and he need to be electorally crushed because impeachment
conviction by a Republican majority Senate seems impossible.
I
want to hear our words to a new spiritual. Free at last, free at last
thank God almighty we are free of the curse of Trump at last!
Thousands Of Pro-Gun Activists And Far-Right Extremists Swarm Richmond, Virginia
Who the heck is trying to steal their precious guns for which the white
supremacists think the government is coming? This is ridiculous. Look
how long it has been taking after the Sandy Hook horror killing of 26
people 20 of whom were children to get simple legislation which would
make background checks mandatory.
Sure the psychotics among the gun
rights demonstrators in VA of which I can guess there are a number
surely do not want background checks. Sorry, I do. In no way do I think
lawmakers would touch the holy Second Amendment. Perish the thought.
The Founders included the Second Amendment because coming from the
perils of a monarchy and being 13 small colonies they wanted to make
sure a dictatorship never developed by having a well regulated militia
like the modern National Guard to defend them from that.
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