A groundswell of justice, of
caring
comes
from changing the wind
a headlong agenda, urgent
giving
new direction for the weathervanes
politicians
with their wet fingers up in the air
catching
the wind and where it points
altering
the compass heading, the pole, the goal
by
changing the wind, the tides
moving the nation forward
one heart at a time
----
edited
January 18, 2016
Claiming
Martin – v4
(editing
version 3)
Martin
Luther King, Jr. Day
edited
January 19, 2015
Claiming
Martin – v3
(merging
edits to version 1 and version 2)
Edited
January 21, 2013
Claiming
Martin – v2
Martin
Luther King, Jr. Day
and
his final speech before his assassination
and
Inauguration of the President
Barack
Hussein Obama
&
&
several
poems written in 2009
written
January 17, 2009
Claiming
Martin
on
the juxtaposition of the
80th
birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
and
the inauguration of Barack Obama
as
President of the United States of America
&
edited
January 19, 2015
Changing
the Wind – v3
(merging
edits to original and version 2)
Edited
July 22, 2013
“changing
the wind – v2”
December 7, 2007
“changing
the wind”
Based on the comments of Jim
Wallis on
Speaking of Faith, November 29,
2007
He was talking about whether to
change politicians
or change the wind, to change
the public opinion
which guides politics. He used
the example
of President Johnson’s
statement to the
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. that it would
take 5 years for a voting
rights bill but
it actually took 5 months to
pass the Voting Rights Act,
after the March in Selma.
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