“…With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day…” I Have a Dream Speech, Dr Martin Luther King Jr, (August 28, 1963)
There will be six people with titles of Rabbi, Bishop, Cardinal, Reverend, Dr and Televangelist, all chosen by Trump to demonstrate to the world, that this man, Trump, actually cares about the symphony of people in the USA. Some of the speakers have told their parishioners that to really find the Lord you must pay before you pray, others have denigrated populations of the USA in the most bigoted of words and deeds. Some have decided to look the other way as the Trump team sides with the Neo Nazi’s, KKK. Some have forgotten that Racism, Misogyny ever were spoken or practiced by Team Trump. And some believe that a liar, an adulterer, a glutton, was chosen by God to become president. None of them must have understood, Dr King’s speech about a dream, most of them prefer the Nightmare.
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children. Dr Martin Luther King Jr, (August 28, 1963)
Perhaps, now even more than the paranoia of the McCarthy Era, the List of Enemies conceived by Nixon, the proclamation of Weapons of Destruction/The Mushroom Cloud by Bush…perhaps now we have little time left to “…make justice a reality for all God’s children…so Rabbi, Televangelists, Reverends, Cardinal, when you stand in the presence of a man eager to please no one but himself, contented to serve his needs, ALL of you can look both Trump and America and remind ALL of us that a Dream exists, not a selfish one, but one in which we all share.
