Dare to Pursue Dr. King’s Dream

RODNEY COATES:


Americas’ response to the senseless violence that claimed the lives of 6 and injured another 14 in Arizona once again demonstrates the power of hope over despair, peace over violence, and love over hate.  These tragedies coming on the heels of our celebration of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. also reminds us of his dream for a better America.  Martin Luther King’s August 28, 1963 speech “I have a Dream” galvanized the hopes and dreams of millions of Americans regardless of race, creed, gender, sexual orientation, age, class or handicap.   In this dream the essence of the American creed was reaffirmed by requiring that we judge a person “by the content of their character and not the color of their skin”. In this dream, we were challenged to let “justice roll down like a mighty river”.  In this dream we all hoped for a time when we would “hue out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope”.   These words have become the bedrock of human rights throughout the world.  These words have become the true measure of how far we have come and how far we must go if America is to live out its creed of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”.   But as the guns wielded by those who hate continue to kill, as unrest continues to produce chaos in the Middle East, as children slaves are being sold in Darfur, as the poor continue to be over-represented in prisons and under-represented in our college class rooms, as women continue to be denied equal pay and rights, and as those who look different from ourselves are dismissed, ridiculed, and denied basic freedoms then we must question just how far we have come toward the realization of the dream.

 

Perhaps the real testament to the power of King’s dream is that we still celebrate it 43 years after a bullet took his life. Perhaps the real measure of the dream is not determined by how many ways we can reiterate the dream in speeches, marches, programs, and proclamations but in tangible, identifiable, and meaningful ways.   As millions of our fellow citizens do more then take a day off from work –but render service to the downtrodden, encourage the hopeless, and feed the hungry –just perhaps the dream yet lives.  As we witness the expansion of rights, the enhancement of privileges, and the realization of hope we see the vitality of the dream.  As we look through our communities we might notice that they are a bit more diverse, our churches a little less homogeneous, our schools a little more inclusive, and our political arenas a little more open to difference – just maybe the dream is alive. No, we have not achieved King’s dream! We have many miles yet to walk. The important thing is that we are willing to make the journey.  Therefore, while senseless acts of violence may momentarily cause us grief, America stands strong and resilient as long as we dare to pursue King’s dream. 

 

*Note: Rodney D. Coates is a professor of sociology and gerontology at Miami University.  He can be reached at coatesrd@muohio.edu.

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  • West

    COPIED FROM THE YAHOO GROUPS.


    --- On Fri, 1/14/11, Amexem INDIGENOUS Aboriginal <allpraisesduetothecreator@yahoo.com> wrote:

       Date: Friday, January 14, 2011, 2:51 PM

        

        Note: U.S. Negroes in AmeriKKKa have absolutely no clue about International Money Matters or International Monetary Affairs. The Human "Flesh and Blood" Labor Energy of every U.S. Negro (by way of the Fraudulent U.S. State Birth Certificate) is the collateral to U.nited S.nakes Treasury Bonds. "YOU" are the surety (asset) backing the U.S. Bonds. If U.S. Treasury Bonds are now in fact worthless, this would mean that your "Corporate" MULE Ass is now worthless and therefore fit to be liquidated ("Salvaged" or "Trashed"). Why didn't your many various Charlatan "Black" Opportunist so-called Leaders tell you that you have been the Jack-Asses of the Planet and "Corporate" Assets for a Commerical Corporation?
        
        THIS SH%T AIN'T NO JOKE !!!
        
        Martin Luther King got you Pathetic Negroes still "DREAMING" when you should have long time ago been SCHEMING.
        
        Shame on the Blind Faith U.S. "Black Sheep" Followers.
        
        (Ain't the Devil Happy) !!!

  • West

    Beloved One:

     

    THE DIVINE TRUTH/REALITY COULD SAVE ALL OF US, WHEN WE REALIZE THE MAJORITY OF US ARE STILL MENTAL SLAVES/MENTALLY ILL, SUFFERING WITH ALL FORMS OF PTSD.

     

    IF WE ARE NOT FOLLWERS OF DIVINE TRUTH/REALITY, TRUE SPIRITUALITY BURIED DEEP IN OUR PSCYE DAN SOUL MIND, WE ARE FOLLOWERS OF EVERY EVIL THERE IS.

     

    Dare to Pursue Dr. King’s Dream

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    Dream and Vision are two different definitions.

     

    MOST OF OUR PEOPLE Dare to Pursue, THE DIVINE TRUTH/REALITY/HARMONY, ORDER, BALANCE OUR SAVIOR, AND THE DIVISION VISION, NOT DREAM.


    Our Beloved MLK, as many of some of our other Ancestors leaders dreams must be questioned especially when it come to assimilation and integration of our people into other races of people, when our people are so far from being in their once Divine right mind-set, NOT operating in Divine Truth/Reality, harmony, order, and balance among each other.

     

    The Spirit of Nature leads and guides us when we are in our Divine True Natural minds.

     

    What animals/species do we see assimilating and integrating with others animals/species? Only when evil men make that happens, we see that. Naturally the animals/species do not assimilate and integrate with other animals/species. Animals and other species have more common sense than people do. They know instinctively how to be. Only Unnatural minds do not know what Divine Harmony, Order, and balance is., and Divine truth/Reality.

     

    I am not overlooking the good Beloved MLK did.

    No leader dead or alive is not above being questioned. We must look at what our Ancestors leaders did wrong as well as good.

     

     

    Dare to Pursue Dr. King’s Dream

     

    Does that mean we are to remain in religion like he was? That is not a Divine Vision.

     

    Why didn't MLK condemn religion?

     

    Are we to continue to pursue religion?

     

    A True Garveyitte like Hon. Garvey would lead and guide his people Back to Beloved Afrika and restore Beloved Afrika not assimilate and integrate with the oppressors children.

     

    Until we return back to our once Divine right mind-set, with Divine Truth/Reality, harmony, order, and balance among our people we are never to assimilate and integrate with others.

     

    Once our people are fully operating mentally in Divine Truth/Reality, harmony, order, and balance with each other, then we can assimilate and integrate with others because in that once Divine right mind-set our people will be the Divine Saviors for our people and the whole world, they who will have something to emulate, the Divine Spirituality coming from our Divine aura/Essence. Little do our people know, we are the Saviors for the whole world.

     

     

    We must be extremely care of some so called “Community Organizers” among us who those selves may not be mentally aware that they are actually “Community Disorganizers, thinking they are doing the people good, when in fact, much harm mentally is being done.

     

    Question: How has our Beloved brother MLK dream bought our people closer to our Divine salvation, liberation, and freedom? How far mentally are our people from MLK teaching/preaching? We are presently backwards perhaps for another 400 years of mental enslavement, some by our own choosing and to the innocent who do not Know, them too.

     

    Any time there is a so called leader among us (both genders) teaches the people to go down the profane path assimilation and integration, why should we Dare to Pursue Dr. King’s Dream.

     

    Even the Leader of America BHO will uplift Our Beloved MLK dream because it is the oppressors dream for us to assimilate and integrate  with others this way we can become like the others and lose sight of who our people once were Divinely so. BHO if you notice will never uplift Hon. Garvey, Malcolm X, Khalid, Mumia and the Cosmic Ancient teachers. Why not? Because these were/are Divine truth/Reality warriors and the last thing the oppressors of this system desire is for Divine Truth/Reality to appear on/in earth.  Our people who are the Divine Truth/Reality fear being Divine Truth/Reality and that is self hatred FERA the Master teacher of self hate.

     

    DR: RAY HAGIN: WHEN WE DENY WE HAVE BEEN HOOK WINKED, BAMBOOZLED, LIED TOO, WE ARE DANGEOURS PEOPLE.

     

    Any of our people who fear being their Divine Truth/Reality selves are enemies to self and the rest of our people.  If we are still waiting for a Savior, Divine Truth/Reality, Harmony, order, and balance is here to do just that, Save us and so is our Ancestors REPARATIONS NOW, our Savior, Ark, Key we do not uplift. It is only a mentally ill people who can not, do not recognize the Ark, Key, Savior Reparations Now is that will save us all.

     

    Until we return back to our once Divine right mind-set, we have made a pact with Lucifer, Satan, Devil (all one) mind-set. Assimilation and integration with others until we are back in our Divine right mind-set is not Divine Order for our people

     

    Another thing the majority of our people do which is profane to do is, we ignore our Divine True teachers (both genders) among us who come to show us out of our misery and we embrace every profane so called leaders to lead and guide us into more profanes. We Sick Massa.

     

    As long as the majority of our people continues to uplift the profane things past leaders said and did, we are out of our once Divine right mind-set. No leader is beyond questioning.

     

    AS FOR CELEBRATION, AS LONG AS WE ARE NOT DIIVNELY FREE WITH OUR OWN LAND/EVERYTHING WE CONTINUE TO CELEBRATE OUR OPPRESSONS.

     

    24/7 (TAKING) SHIFT, 24/7 CHANT (GLOBALLY) REPARATIONS NOW, ADVOCATING, DEMANDING, AND COMMANDING FOR OUR ENSLAVED ANCESTORS REPARATIONS SHOULD BE OUR GOALS AND OBJECTION FOR OUR PEOPLE. GETTING REPARATIONS NOW WILL BE OUR DIVINE CELEBRATIONS FOR US ALL.

     

    Lets  talk about one of the disease/infections/cancerous/slave/captive mentality word one of many words, that has held our people back into our lowest evil dimension of thinking and one of those words are the dope "Hope".

     


    HOPE: “Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man”.

     

    HOPE:  Hope keeps you focused on the illusionary future, and this persistent focus perpetuates your denial of the Now (present moment) resulting in your unhappiness. The secret attempts. The feeling you got that the feeling you got ain't permanent. (Dr. Blynd, Funktionary)

     

    HOPE: Is a meaningless emotion because its fruits are always in the future and, by definition, never in the NOW.(David Icke)

     

    HOPE : Is like riding a carousel horse; no matter how fast you go you never get closer to the one in front. The idea, however, is to persuade you to stay on the horse, despite the evitable disappointment, in the 'hope' that things will change. But they don't because the very system is designed to prevent it.(David Icke)

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    MOST OF OUR PEOPLE HAVE BEEN WELL CONDITIONED AND PROGRAM TO BE LIKE WHAT A DOG DOES, AND THAT IS REGURGITATE THINGS LIKE A DOG THAT EATS HER/HIS VOMIT. MEANING WHERE IS THE DIVINE NEW INTELLIGENT INFORMATION WE ONCE KNEW AND USING MENTALLY TODAY, THAT INFORMATION WHICH IS OUR DIVINE SAVIOR.

     

    WHAT DOES "OUT WITH THE OLD, AND IN WITH THE NEW MEAN TO OUR PEOPLE?

     

    I KNOW WHAT I KNOW

    I DO NOT KNOW WHAT I DO NOT KNOW

    I (BELIEVE) NOTHING, BECAUSE TO (BELIEVE) IS TO BE LIED AND DECEIVED.

    I AM STILL LEARNING

    I AM A STUDENT OF DIVINE LIFE LIVING AND THINKING, MY DIVINE SAVIOR.

     

    REPARATIONS NOW

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