Thank you! As always, your words and thoughts ring true. I am so angry and sad that racist hatred and greed/corruption have worked so hard to destroy what little progress was made through Dr. King’s leadership during the Civil Rights Era. I was an idealistic teenager then, and believed we had found the way forward. I’m far from idealistic now, but I still believe we MUST, we SHALL overcome or we are lost. 🥲
I quit watching MSNOW after the election last year but do I ever miss your intelligent and thoughtful words. I went to your event today in NoVA and your presentation was just what I needed to hear in this time that our country is in. You’ve given me hope and more importantly energy to keep up the good fight. Peace and love.
For 250 years we have not been honest with ourselves. We like to think democracy and equality were our founding ideals but they were not. Wealthy white men were preferred. Wealthy white Christian men, these days. It may take 250 more years before we face reality. Dr. King was a remarkable human being. We need thousands--maybe millions---more like him. I'm not sure that's possible.
indeed, “we’ve got some difficult days ahead”. you are so right about being honest with ourselves - “to tell the truth about who we are”. i believe that much like what south africa did at the end of apartheid, we must have a truth and reconciliation hearing in order to acknowledge the harm that racism has and continues to do to this country. we can never be whole until we face those facts. what we are witnessing in these times is the destructive effort to erase our history-the good, the bad, the ugly. but, as Dr. King said, “truth crushed to earth will rise again-no lie can live forever “.
Dr. Eddie,
Thanks for your thoughts and information. Dr. King was truly one of humanity’s great leaders and philosophers.
Ruby Bridges on racism said, “ Racism and Hate are grown up diseases, and we must STOP passing them on to our children!”
Thank you! As always, your words and thoughts ring true. I am so angry and sad that racist hatred and greed/corruption have worked so hard to destroy what little progress was made through Dr. King’s leadership during the Civil Rights Era. I was an idealistic teenager then, and believed we had found the way forward. I’m far from idealistic now, but I still believe we MUST, we SHALL overcome or we are lost. 🥲
I quit watching MSNOW after the election last year but do I ever miss your intelligent and thoughtful words. I went to your event today in NoVA and your presentation was just what I needed to hear in this time that our country is in. You’ve given me hope and more importantly energy to keep up the good fight. Peace and love.
For 250 years we have not been honest with ourselves. We like to think democracy and equality were our founding ideals but they were not. Wealthy white men were preferred. Wealthy white Christian men, these days. It may take 250 more years before we face reality. Dr. King was a remarkable human being. We need thousands--maybe millions---more like him. I'm not sure that's possible.
Well said. Thank you
indeed, “we’ve got some difficult days ahead”. you are so right about being honest with ourselves - “to tell the truth about who we are”. i believe that much like what south africa did at the end of apartheid, we must have a truth and reconciliation hearing in order to acknowledge the harm that racism has and continues to do to this country. we can never be whole until we face those facts. what we are witnessing in these times is the destructive effort to erase our history-the good, the bad, the ugly. but, as Dr. King said, “truth crushed to earth will rise again-no lie can live forever “.
When this nightmare is over I hope that we can finally have a full reckoning of ourselves and our history-all of it.
Artist: Patty Griffin
Released: 2007
Album: Children Running Through
Genres: Alternative/Indie, Country, Rock
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I went up to the mountain
Because you asked me to
Up over the clouds
To where the sky was blue
I could see all around me
Everywhere
I could see all around me
Everywhere
Sometimes I feel like
I've never been nothing but tired
cnd I'll be walking
Till the day I expire
Sometimes I lay down
No more can I do
But then I go on again
Because you ask me to
Some days I look down
afraid I will fall
and though the sun shines
I see nothing at all
Then I hear your sweet voice, oh
Oh, come and then go, come and then go
Telling me softly
You love me so
The peaceful valley
Just over the mountain
The peaceful valley
Few come to know
I may never get there
Ever in this lifetime
But sooner or later
It's there I will go
Sooner or later
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Patricia J. Griffin
Up to the Mountain (MLK Song) lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Thank you for sharing timely words from one of our brothers we loved and miss.