Thursday, January 27, 2011

Obama Gun Grabbing

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Obama Gun Grabbing: Goodnight America, and may you have sweet dreams.  Dream about how you’ve forgotten Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  May your minds rest at ease as flags blow in the breeze.  Can we now get on with our lives forgetting why he died.  Go ahead and sleep while freedom barely sings, we all owe so much to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

You may wonder why I say that, and I’ll tell you that it’s because it’s true.  We have forgotten.  We bicker and fight as if what we’re fighting for is what’s truly important.  We scramble and scrape over our so called gun rights.  Who gave you the right to take another person’s life?  Talking heads and so called heirs to the legend of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. claim to know what we would have championed next.  They claim that he would’ve supported wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  They claim Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would have celebrated interracial marriage and dating because of the phrase “little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers”.  However did he say little black boys and little white girls or vice versa?  No he didn’t!  So how can you know unless you knew him?

We can’t.  Therefore we have to look past the words and into the meaning of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was not a legend, he was not a myth, he was not perfect.  He was flawed as we all are but he made the best of his flaws.  He studied and worked hard.  He was an excellent orator, thinker, debater, writer, etc.  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is an excellent example for us to follow but not idolize.  We should be looking to his words and foundations, not as a ceiling above which we can go no higher.

 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wanted excellence of himself, his family, and his people, his Nation and this world.  So as you go to sleep tonight try NOT to forget Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Keep his teachings in your heart, in your minds, in your actions.  Let the exterior become unimportant and make your decisions based on what a person shows you is his or her character.  As you dream, dream of a day when we no longer need, to legislate equality, dream of a day when the walls that separate us come down, dream of a day when the best of us shines through before the worst rears its head.  On that day is when we will have realized the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Happy MLK Jr. Day everyone! It is with a sad heart today America looks back and celebrates.

Remember: the world will only change for the better when we stop thinking nothing we do matters and start thinking, everything we do matters.

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