Chatbug Karen

I happened upon a link to an article titled What If Martin Luther King, Jr. Had Lived that got me thinking about how far we have come today in our quest to be all things equal. I wonder what MLK would think. I haven’t read the article yet as I wanted to give my own, unbiased opinion on the subject. I thought we had made great strides in equality until Jena 6. This was the incident that began in December 2006. Young black men were arrested and without a rally of concerned citizens, might have been sentenced to unjustifiable punishment without the truth being told. That shocked me. I thought we were better than that. Now, to see what the article’s author has to say.

These words from Martin Luther King, Jr. are still effective today:

“God didn’t call America to engage in a senseless, unjust war,” King said of the fighting in Vietnam. “And we are criminals in that war. We’ve committed more war crimes almost than any nation in the world, and I’m going to continue to say it.”

While King didn’t go as far as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright in suggesting that God “damn America,” he predicted that the almighty might punish this country for “our pride and our arrogance.”

“And if you don’t stop your reckless course,” he imagined the deity admonishing, “I’ll rise up and break the backbone of your power.”

I wonder what it will take to learn our lesson.