1892 MLK & DJt
Mugshot to remind us tat Martin Luther King Jr and many others did
more than just talk,
It is Martin Luther King Jr day,
and we’ll get to that. But first about the president. He said something
awful the other day and it got widespread publicity because it had a four
letter word in it. Actually, the word he used had eight letters. But
since everything with trump is exaggerated, we’ll let that pass.
First he called Haiti and other
places “shithole countries.” Then he denied saying it. In front of
witnesses. But not just any witnesses. In front of witnesses who
also are United States Senators who until January 3, 1981 were cut from
dignified cloth and behaved properly even when they didn’t really mean it.
And one of those senators went on
television after the denial and denied the denial. “He said it,” says
Sen. Dick Durban (D-IL.) Other senators also in the room are suffering
from amnesia. They did it using the mobster dodge “I don’t recall… him
saying that.”
We may be fools. But, sens.,Tom
Cotten (R-AR) and David Perdue (R-GA), we’re not that big of fools.
But what the president said is
true.
Say what?
Yes, Haiti and those other places
are living, breathing, throbbing infected lands of horror. And many of
the people there agree. And they come here to try to realize the American
Dream. And many do.
Call it smart or call it cowardly,
these men and women know their surroundings and strive to climb out of those
holes. Meantime, the US supports corrupt regimes around the world because
we see the suffering and can’t stand it.
Haiti lost its stability with the
demise of Papa and Baby Docs. But what they got was the same kind of
squalor and growing crookedness that they left behind.
South Africa’s government has been
captured by a trio of brothers from India who seem to make all the important
decisions in that country. The difference is that South Africa has
saleable natural resources coming out of its ears, so there’s no need to worry
about a bunch of fat, greedy boys who control who sits in the president’s
chair, the national treasury, the advertising media, etc.
But what about Sudan?
Ethiopia? Places like that.
When trump said we need more
immigrants from countries like Norway, the instant retort that comes to mind is
“what self respecting ambitious and happy Norwegian would want to emigrate here
these days?
America could flush the overflowing
toilets of Haiti and the African continent. And it would be cheaper than
just opening food banks and washing mud off the streets of Port-au-Prince.
TODAY'S QUOTES:
"I am not a racist."
-Donald trump
"I am not a crook." -
Richard Nixon
SHRAPNEL (Martin Luther King edition:)
--For many years on this holiday,
this space has derided the notion that anyone could speak for Dr. King all
these years after his death. But that’s never stopped anyone from members of
his family to poverty pimps to Reagan and trump. As conditions in this country
deteriorate and the workings here fall into the hands of the weak-but-loud, the
hypocrites, the ignorant and the illiterate, we’re less steadfast in our denial
that anyone could speak for Martin.
--King delivered thousands of
sermons and lectures. He wrote dozens of position papers and worked
tirelessly for jobs, freedom and equal opportunity. But we remember him
for four words, “I have a dream.” And that’s both inadequate and unfair.
I’m Wes Richards. My
opinions are my own but you’re welcome to them. ®
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