http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbUtL_0vAJk
(Speech link above, video:Martin Luther King's 'I have a Dream' speech.....)
......Martin Luther King had a dream, has a dream, looked ahead of his day into a dream. He spoke at a time, then, when I was nearing a teen, when people of colour still were not permitted to eat, use bathrooms, drink from water fountains, and more, as those of supposed non-coloured people heritage. Why and what was he addressing? The primary thing that had changed was only the potential freedom from a federal governing perspective. 100 years after this constitutional legal freedom was 'given' to those of African heritage living , where black people in America were still slaves within a country that only had yet another deed for freedom the leaders did not live up to. He had every good reason to not do what he did and to have no hope that anything would come of it. He also had every good reason to not do what he did in the context of the preaching of peace and non-violence, from his perspective, the greatest act of courage. He looked back and forward from the perspective of what is bigger than the words of this country's Constitutional formula, where 'all men' included all from within our species, whether black, white, red, yellow, brown, both genders and any and all people living within our land, that all would be free as 'free persons,' to borrow Thomas Jefferson's anticipated words. He saw the 'Negro,' the 'black' person as icons for potential freedom for all, not just for black folks. He saw within the struggling, suffering Americans of races of colour a co-struggle with all races and peoples, because we are all from the same genesis of being. He proposed and believed, and more importantly, sought to practice a belief that there was and is only one species of our heritage, only beheld, if we dare choose, the various and most lovely of hues and textures. The march to DC was a march for 'all people,' not merely black people. Today, there is only one way to carry the torch from Martin Luther King. No matter how weak or frail our march is today, let us still march, march together as one people. We are one people because it is self evident that all humanity are created equally as true persons. One day, as Martin Luther King, saw a day, not merely in a heaven or hell or other someday, but for now, that fear would give way to love, war would give way to peace, and that despair would give way to hope. Yes, for all folks!
'If there is to be any peace it will come through being not having.' + Henry Miller 'Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.' + Martin Luther King Jr. 'The search for Truth is the search for God.' + Gandhi
(Speech link above, video:Martin Luther King's 'I have a Dream' speech.....)
......Martin Luther King had a dream, has a dream, looked ahead of his day into a dream. He spoke at a time, then, when I was nearing a teen, when people of colour still were not permitted to eat, use bathrooms, drink from water fountains, and more, as those of supposed non-coloured people heritage. Why and what was he addressing? The primary thing that had changed was only the potential freedom from a federal governing perspective. 100 years after this constitutional legal freedom was 'given' to those of African heritage living , where black people in America were still slaves within a country that only had yet another deed for freedom the leaders did not live up to. He had every good reason to not do what he did and to have no hope that anything would come of it. He also had every good reason to not do what he did in the context of the preaching of peace and non-violence, from his perspective, the greatest act of courage. He looked back and forward from the perspective of what is bigger than the words of this country's Constitutional formula, where 'all men' included all from within our species, whether black, white, red, yellow, brown, both genders and any and all people living within our land, that all would be free as 'free persons,' to borrow Thomas Jefferson's anticipated words. He saw the 'Negro,' the 'black' person as icons for potential freedom for all, not just for black folks. He saw within the struggling, suffering Americans of races of colour a co-struggle with all races and peoples, because we are all from the same genesis of being. He proposed and believed, and more importantly, sought to practice a belief that there was and is only one species of our heritage, only beheld, if we dare choose, the various and most lovely of hues and textures. The march to DC was a march for 'all people,' not merely black people. Today, there is only one way to carry the torch from Martin Luther King. No matter how weak or frail our march is today, let us still march, march together as one people. We are one people because it is self evident that all humanity are created equally as true persons. One day, as Martin Luther King, saw a day, not merely in a heaven or hell or other someday, but for now, that fear would give way to love, war would give way to peace, and that despair would give way to hope. Yes, for all folks!
'If there is to be any peace it will come through being not having.' + Henry Miller 'Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.' + Martin Luther King Jr. 'The search for Truth is the search for God.' + Gandhi