Martin Luther King is a personal hero of mine. I've always been inspired by his courage and admired his rhetorical skills. I've often lamented the degree to which our nation has failed to recognize the debt we owe him for leading an emphatically non-violent movement seeking racial equality before the law.
As a tribute, I read "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" each year. If you have never read it, its well worth the 20-25 minutes it will take you to get through it.
However, here is another article that you ought to read as well. If, after reading this article, anyone thinks we can simply "look forward," then I'd say you don't understand the nature of the human soul or the dangers of unaccountable power. Americans can be noble. But we are not intrinsically more moral than other people. That is why our founding fathers created a system of divided and limited government with a free press and an independent judiciary. That system is breaking down. Evil men are using our misguided (albeit patriotic) sentiments to dissuade us from exposing them and holding them accountable.
This cannot stand. It is tantamount to ignoring cancer.
Joe H.
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