Changing the Wind – v3

A groundswell of justice, of caring

comes from changing the winds

the entire focus, the culture,

giving new direction for the weathervanes

politicians with their wet fingers up in the breezes

catching the wind and where it points to

altering the compass heading, the pole, the goal

by changing the wind, the tides

moving the nation forward

one heart at a time

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edited January 18, 2016

Claiming Martin – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/01/claiming-martin-v4.html

(editing version 3)

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

edited January 19, 2015

Claiming Martin – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/01/claiming-martin-v3.html

(merging edits to version 1 and version 2)

Edited January 21, 2013

Claiming Martin – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/01/claiming-martin-v2.html

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

written January 17, 2009

Claiming Martin

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2009/01/claiming-martin.html

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

&

edited January 19, 2015

Changing the Wind – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/01/changing-wind-v3.html

(merging edits to original and version 2)

Edited July 22, 2013

“changing the wind – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/07/changing-wind-v2.html

December 7, 2007

“changing the wind”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2007/12/changing-wind.html

Based on the comments of Jim Wallis on

Speaking of Faith, November 29, 2007

http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/jimwallis/index.shtml

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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