Black churches and pastors have come to the fore recently on the issue of gays and gay marriage. The basis of their opposition to gay marriage is their religion, Christianity and the Bible. This should make us all blink a little in disbelief. Blacks have suffered enormously in the past because of racial discrimination, and [...]
A recent commencement address by Dennis Kucinich: Dear Friend, I want to share with you this Commencement speech I gave this week to 5000 attendees from over 100 countries at American University in Dubai (AUD). Previous AUD Commencement speakers include President Clinton and Secretaries of State Powell, Albright and Baker. In the speech I strive [...]
Langston Hughes wrote a beautiful, impassioned poem about America. Here it is: LET AMERICA BE AMERICA AGAIN Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is free. (America never was America to me.) Let America [...]
Our representatives in congress are gridlocked. Politics are gridlocked. The country is gridlocked. America is gridlocked. The America that should be, the dream of America that has been waiting in the wings for eternity, is gridlocked. Politicians are arguing day after day, trying to convince the American people that they are the truer representatives of [...]
The Dream of America is coming to fruition. It is the realm of Eternity, existing right here, right now, in the most mundane affairs that go on day to day. This is the land – America – where we come forth. Myriads of people have waited breathlessly for aeons and aeons, waiting for their blissful [...]
The times they are a’changing. The contrast is very stark: Authoritarian powers and dupes of leaders are falling like dominoes around the world. Those hanging onto their power through iron-fisted control tremble in the face of something brewing beyond their control. Even in our own supposedly democratic government, there is exposed the most glaring self-centeredness, [...]
“These are the times that try mens’ souls.” These famous words of Thomas Paine from his pamphlet “The Crisis”, written during the American Revolutionary War, stirred the spirit of all Americans of that difficult time. The words might as well have been uttered today. Paine lived and wrote amid two great revolutions: The American Revolution, [...]
So now people are finally bringing the revolution to the streets. At New York’s Stock Exchange, we suddenly see hundreds of people, young and old, protesting greed, protesting banks and bankers, protesting the stock market, protesting something almost indefinable now in the air in America. It is despair, it is disgust, with our own government. [...]
The uprisings and revolts taking place throughout the Arab world are astonishing harbingers of a new world order emerging, not only in that part of the globe, but all over the planet. We have not yet seen the true face of this revolution. The old ways are no longer holding. Autocracy is on its way [...]
At a recent stop in Orlando, Michelle Bachmann, campaigning for President of the United States, was quoted as saying: “Washington, D.C., you’d think by now they’d get the message. An earthquake. A hurricane. Are you listening? The American people have done everything they can. Now it’s time for an act of God and we’re getting [...]