We've faced this before though, this is neither the best nor worst of times. Imagine being forced to the back of the bus. Being denied medical treatment. Not evil glances but a neck in a noose. This was the world that MLK knew. He was a natural leader who could have called to burn the white establishment. He caused fear but not by threat of violence but by being something too many couldn't comprehend, a person of just principle. A nation based on respect and equality. An inclusive society, not just blacks but every human. It was his dream and he acted on it. He did not stand on the sidelines, he didn't call for revenge. He wanted understanding between all peoples.
People complain about Trump and some of his supporters. He's nothing compared to George Wallace and the Klan in their hanging days.
Hate is embraced by all sides and retaliation is disguised as justice. This is what I object to.
A simple question for you. When the world is an eye for an eye, do we embrace or resist it? Do we try to understand and embrace all peoples or divide them and pronounce them as abhorrent although we have no knowledge of more than a handful of people and generalizations?
What seems good to you?
I understand this. But we live in a system that was designed to protect the innocent from the tyranny of the majority that has been turned on its head with the minority thwarting the will of the majority at every turn, an insane minority, in my opinion, that has no decent respects for the rights of men. I believe we have elected a dangerous sociopath who poses a serious threat to the nation. Am I supposed to look the other way?
To be, or not to be--that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep--
No more--and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to. 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep--
To sleep--perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprise of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action. -- Soft you now,
The fair Ophelia! -- Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remembered.
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security...........
I believe we have a right to self defense, to right the wrongs of injustice, but the problem is knowing what is really right or really just. Everybody thinks they do and everybody can't be right.