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Jan
21
Remembering MLK Today
Filed Under Martin Luther King Jr
We’ve come a long way toward realizing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream for America, but must remember that we still have far to go to break the bonds of discrimination and distrust.
We need to remember to embrace Dr. Martin Luther King’s exhortation to let freedom ring in a nation where we will live true to the fundamental law written in the Declaration of Independence all men are created equal.
I wrote this over at Vocalo expanding the notion that we should unite to the battles that often divide people in these days:
Too often, we fall into the trap of dividing and fleeing from each other, instead of coming together to find the solutions to the problems facing our country. I might not always agree with you (and you with me), but there’s always value in listening to each other so that the best thoughts will win out in their never ending competition in the marketplace of ideas.
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I think that we’re too fargone, politically speaking. There’s too much bad blood between Republicans and Democrats. And quite frankly, it looks like Democrats are on the ascent for now, so why shouldn’t they run roughshod over their opponents?
I also think that Obama talks a lot but does very little. What does unity really mean to him? Where can he show compromise in his agenda to accomodate Republicans?
I also think that, whatever the problems in “x” community (Black, latino, whatever), the solutions are generally within that community. Yet human nature is to find a bogeyman outside the community to blame all the problems on.
Bill Cosby has more to offer the black community today than MLK does, for example.
Hi Buzz,
You may be right about too much bad blood between Democrats and Republicans lately. I guess some of it is a reaction to the Clinton-bashing of the 1990s, but it seems to have gone way overboard.
That might be a result of the notion that Democrats are more emotion oriented and Republicans are more analytical. While I might have bashed Clinton back in school, I never had an intense dislike for the guy.
I don’t know if the same can be said for some of the Bush opponents, based on what I’ve heard and read over the last seven years.
You’re also onto something with the notion that solutions to problems can be found with communities, but leaders often have an interest in keeping people dependent upon their help, rather than uniting as a community to overcome.
If you look at Asian communities, there isn’t a major Asian advocate that represents those various communities because people often turn to each other for assistance — capital, jobs and otherwise — instead of looking outward or to the government. A guy or gal arriving from overseas looks to those who have made it in America, rather than the government.
This is also a function of having come from governments that are so communal that they don’t mind rolling over individuals if that advances the plan, as well as experiencing the mind-numbing bureaucracy involved in the immigration process with all of its forms, applications, and long waits.
The solution to many economic problems in the United States will come when people start networking with each other, rather than looking to the often inefficient government.