I think the saddest thing about the legal and political climate in our country right now is that it tramples all over our dreams. Our dream that some brave people centuries ago dared to forge into reality. A dream of freedoms, a dream of equality, a dream of peacefully living, and most of all, a responsible citizenship to hold that dream safe.
We have foolishly believed it was enough. We worked on, or at least recognized,some of our gaffes with indigenous and enslaved peoples. Now, we want our children to not feel guilt, so we seek to eliminate it from our minds and teachings. When did we eliminate the dream?
That dream, that beautiful dream, has caused this nation to slap down despots like Hitler, and communistic leaders, and threats against that dream wherever we discover it. And now the battle to save it must be fought within our own boundaries.
Keep that dream alive. Division, hateful rhetoric, untruths, have no part in it. Democracy has been the “Great Experiment “ for the nations of the world. Can such a dream be doable? Can equality and personal responsibility be the bookends to our society? We have thought so! I still think so! I still have a dream.
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