MLK
Doctor King left us before he completed his fourth decade. Imagine if he were still here imparting wisdom as he approached his eighth decade. There was a cover on one of the weekly news magazines prior to that horrendous spring of 1968 that touted Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King as the dream ticket. Who knows what that might set in motion. That year both were cut down. Some thought, "That's what we get for dreaming."
A dream indeed that peace, freedom and equality might be the rule of the day. The more things change the more they stay the same. The Dream nevertheless lives on.
That election year segregationist George Wallace stole the Deep South from Richard Nixon's electoral count almost costing him the election. It was maintaining race as a pivotal issue in presidential politics. After the assassination attempt on Wallace in 1972, the South has remained firmly ensconced in the bosom of the Republican Party.
Al Gore, who is sorely missed this election cycle, once said:
As Dr. King once said, "Perhaps a new spirit is rising among us. If it is, let us trace its movements and pray that our own inner being may be sensitive to its guidance, for we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around us."
William Jefferson Clinton was once euphemistically referred to as the first Black President, because of his strident and unbridled support in the African American Community. It's hoped that he doesn't destroy that legacy.
It's great that Barack Obama is a viable candidate. It's even better that Black Americans are not falling in lock step and voting for him simply because he is one of them. What is not so great is that political reporting is still very much about the process and polling as opposed to issues.
As an aside, no matter what he says,pandering to who knows who, Obama is no Reagan. (Saints be praised!) Oh, and just because "The Surge" is allegedly working does not make it a good idea and nor does it make the entire Iraq enterprise good. The soldiers need to come home. There need be a closer look at Pakistan, an ever festering symptom of what has been created in that part of the world.
Coining Tom Brokaw's phrase. Please do not stampede the process. Let it play out.
A dream indeed that peace, freedom and equality might be the rule of the day. The more things change the more they stay the same. The Dream nevertheless lives on.
That election year segregationist George Wallace stole the Deep South from Richard Nixon's electoral count almost costing him the election. It was maintaining race as a pivotal issue in presidential politics. After the assassination attempt on Wallace in 1972, the South has remained firmly ensconced in the bosom of the Republican Party.
Al Gore, who is sorely missed this election cycle, once said:
As Dr. King once said, "Perhaps a new spirit is rising among us. If it is, let us trace its movements and pray that our own inner being may be sensitive to its guidance, for we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around us."
William Jefferson Clinton was once euphemistically referred to as the first Black President, because of his strident and unbridled support in the African American Community. It's hoped that he doesn't destroy that legacy.
It's great that Barack Obama is a viable candidate. It's even better that Black Americans are not falling in lock step and voting for him simply because he is one of them. What is not so great is that political reporting is still very much about the process and polling as opposed to issues.
As an aside, no matter what he says,pandering to who knows who, Obama is no Reagan. (Saints be praised!) Oh, and just because "The Surge" is allegedly working does not make it a good idea and nor does it make the entire Iraq enterprise good. The soldiers need to come home. There need be a closer look at Pakistan, an ever festering symptom of what has been created in that part of the world.
Coining Tom Brokaw's phrase. Please do not stampede the process. Let it play out.
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