Monday, January 18, 2021

MLK DAY /2021

 Lost in this dystopian landscape in which we have been asked to traverse for four years under a Trump/McConnell America, the Year of the Monster 2020, and the past 46 DAYS, since our election, surmounting over 24 million cases of COVID, 398 thousand deaths from COVID, the orphaning of 245 children by hands of DHS, the actions of insurrection by 6 GOP Senators/121 House Republican Members, the over 30,000 lies told by Trump, promoted by his various Press Secretaries, enabled by almost every single GOP politician on Federal and Local…

 

…lost in the DOMESTIC TERRORISM, engulfed with the madness which has become the new norm of Conspiracy Theories and the Snake Oil Salesmen and the Con of Evangelical Preachers…we find ourselves at a crossroads, dazed and confused, corrupted and confounded, disheveled and drowsy from having to defend the truth day after day AFTER DAY…

 

…Today is the celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. What a moment, for me, to open my mind and consider, just how far a journey we could have taken, listening to the words, reviewing the actions of MLK; but in fact instead of creating history as we take that walk, we somehow have turned backward and are repeating the actions that do not revive or enhance us BUT enslave us and keep us at bay. Today is the day we should reflect on the purpose and promise Dr. King promoted, but instead, we are forced to hear the clash and corruption of a MOB, a MOB BOSS, and retreat from the future, embracing a horrid past…

 

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

“The time is always right to do what is right.” Martin Luther King Jr.