I have a dream too

I Have a Dream Too
Written on 1/19/10
By Julie Foster


In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., with deep admiration:

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. MLK, Jr 8/28/63

My dream is that America will, in Dr King's words: “vote not on the color of their skin, but the content of their character”. Please hear his words with color blind eyes:

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. MLK 8/28/63

A little over ten scores later, we now stand in the shadows of Dr. Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln, facing a great injustice imposed upon our country. Christians, in the land that these great patriots loved and died for, are now held captive by those who wish to transform the America that these two patriots loved. JGF 1/19/10

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. MLK Jr. 8/28/63

One hundred and fifty years later, the “Negro” is free. Barack Hussein Obama has risen to the highest office of the land. He no longer "lives in an island of poverty", nor is he "exiled". But he is still imprisoned by the mindset of a “beaten mentality”. JGF 1/19/10

In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
MLK Jr. 8/28/63

We rejoice that the check has been cashed. All black men, as well as white men are guaranteed the “unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” as specified in our Constitution. All black women and women of any race are guaranteed that right as well! JGF 1/19/10

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check — a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children. MLK Jr. 8/28/63

It is obvious today that the promissary note has been redeemed-as Barack Obama has assumed the power of the Presidency. The black race has the riches of freedom, the security of justice. But what happened to rising above the “quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood?” Now is “the time to make justice a reality for all God’s children?”

Herein lies the ironic rub. A child in the womb has no protection when the government of our great country forces its people to share in the responsibility of its death. Taxpayer-funded abortion goes against all that Martin Luther King Jr held dear. He laid down his life proclaiming the sanctity of life as did his predecessor Martin Luther King Jr. Life is precious “whether it is black or yellow, red or white, they are precious in His sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world.” JGF 1/19/10.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. MLK Jr. 8/28/1963 MLK Jr

Killing an unborn child, especially a black child, flies in the face of equality. We must stop any health care bill that pays to eradicate by more than 7-1, the black child in the womb via tax-payer-funded abortion. The womb is far more dangerous than the streets that Martin Luther King Jr. ever trod. “I have a dream” too, that the unborn have a chance to live, for in it's fetal state,is the beginning of all all rights ascribed to man.

Note:
I started writing this at 12:33 on the morning of the Massachusetts Senatorial vote on 1/19/10. My thoughts just flowed. I finish editing this draft at :1:40 am because of my Lord. He knew Abraham and Martin, and he knows me by name.