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Carolyn Hileman | October 28, 2010
Is this the end result of their dream?
Carolyn Hileman
In the varied and colored history of America there were many great African American people who fought for and obtained justice for their people, Here are just a few of these people and a few words that they had to say:
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver
When our thoughts – which bring actions – are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.
George Washington Carver
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
Booker T. Washington
I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
Rosa Parks
And then there are those who wish to ride in on their coattails and attempt to destroy every thing these people believed in. Oh we long for the day that we have greatness like this once again, yet absent that wonderful presence we settle for those who look the part, can read the words and sound just as eloquent, but they are just playing a part, reading a line and if left to their own devises often utter words such as “We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for a ride, but they gotta sit in back.”. Which rightfully reminds us of yet another great African American Rosa Parks who said,
“I didn’t want to pay my fare and then go around the back door, because many times, even if you did that, you might not get on the bus at all.” Was that comment meant to imply that in Obama’s America where Republicans are considered mostly white, they will now be treated as slaves? Is this in keeping with the other great African American people who stood their ground, who worked with the white people to affect change or was what they said only words, their actions unimportant, was it not equality they fought for, a chance to sit at the same table, to ride up front on the bus? And now to have their fight reduced to one comment by the first black president that in essence says we are in control now it is your turn to suffer, is this the end result of their dream?
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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