Black and White – v2

Thinking back four years

for that incredible moment in time

a bit of history unfolding

filling our hearts and mind

Sitting in the den, comfortable,

my wife, my children, my mother-in-law

all African-American, watching his speech

sharing his words, his dream, remembering his work

Our littlest, seven, asking why the picture was in black and white

explaining, hard as it was for her to believe, that there was only

black and white television at that time

incredible, incredulous, watching the preacher on the mall

How much has changed, how much transpired, since those days

before the assassinations, before the internet, before Watergate

before cell phones, before voting rights, before Vietnam

so long ago, so far from today

We gathered today, we will gather tomorrow,

black and white, young and old

to watch the flickering screen, now in full color

to see another chink, another link of the chain loosened

We will watch as another son, another man

stands to take the oath, to swear allegiance to our law

to take another step, on the road that Martin walked

to change our nation, in living color, for one and all

January 21, 2013

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

and his final speech before his assassination

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oehry1JC9Rk&feature=youtu.be

and Inauguration of the President

Barack Hussein Obama

&

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2009/01/not-just-dream-reality.html

&

several poems written in 2009

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/search/label/Martin%20Luther%20King

on the juxtaposition of the

80^th birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.

and the inauguration of Barack Obama

as President of the United States of America

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January 19, 2009

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

watching his “I have a dream” speech with my family;

the message, “It’s not just a dream but a reality”

on the sign in front of church;

the story of Moses and Joshua,

Deuteronomy 34:1-12

Joshua 1:1-9

along with

Micah 4:1-4

Matthew 5:43-48

the sermon, “Love Your Who???”,

by Reverend Huntley Halvorson,

Suncook United Methodist Church, Suncook, NH,

and the hypothetical put to Eric Holder, nominee for Attorney General,

by Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) on the use of waterboarding,

January 15, 2009, during his Senate Confirmation Hearings,

see http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/15/cornyn-holder-waterboard/

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