The late, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is the only
American citizen in the history of the United States to whom
"We The People" have bestowed the immortal honor of
establishing his birth of January 15th (* 1929) in this
country, as a National Holiday.
Such an honor in this yet young nation "conceived
in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created
equal" has not even
bestowed upon any singular individual including US President (* the Hon.
George Washington or Abraham Lincoln et al) other than the collective
Presidents Day of February 20th.
The young, American Black man born in the
US State of Georgia has been elevated by a White dominated society even
above themselves, to a level of immortal memory that exemplifies to
date, the greatest embodiment of the American Dream and spirit.
Based on the powerful, infamous "I Have A Dream"
Speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial
during the 1963 Washington,
DC, Civil Rights March. Dr. Kings' universal and timeless Dream
for the healing of the nations' Soul from a slavery wounded and
subsequent racial maladies has enshrined his memory deeply into the
national framework and continued edification our country.
The exaltation of King to such an iconic level,
even above all US Presidents, affords his message and actions to
emulated by all American citizens for as long as the peculiar nation
endures.
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. either
understood exactly what he was speaking of on August 28,1963, or his
haunting utterances was a mysterious act of Divine Providence (* which often occurs
at significant moments throughout the history of the United States)
inspired of the Holy Spirit of GOD who knows the future our youthful
Nation.
On that day, Dr. King spoke a true Prescription
to the huge crowd who instinctively came to
the Civil Rights March on Washington, DC seeking the moral Healing of
America's Soul from the deep gash-wound of slavery and the ill effects
of racist Jim Crow
legislation.
While most Americans espoused the doctrine of
"core conservative values" that the American Dream offered to all its
citizens, Dr. King poignantly noted that the date of August 28, 1963 was just over 100
years and 9 months from the time when the late US President, Abraham Lincoln signed
the Proclamation that emancipated the nation from the bondage of chattel
slavery January 1,1863.
Yet, on August 28,1963, the American social
prophet he cried in alarm that "...100 years later and the Negro
is still not free"
According to many reports, including those of the
United Way and National Urban League, American Black US citizens, the
emancipated slaves, though a mere 12% of the general US population,
leads all other ethno-racial groups in nearly every negative social
statistic in our nation.
However, the great universal Dream that he loudly
proclaimed on that fateful day to a racially sick nation from its' seemingly
incurable wound of slavery, that there was a Healing Balm for the weary
Soul of America.
In order that universal Dream in which we can all
join together to sing that old Negro spiritual, "Free At Last.
Free At Last. Thank GOD Almighty, We Are Free At Last", was predicated
on whether or not the wounded and ill nation would receive his
Prescription to be Healed.
Dr. King sternly warned all of US - White and
Black, that we if didn't take the Prescription, but rather returned to "business as usual" as though there was no
mass Civil Rights march seeking the Healing of America, our beloved
homeland would have "...rude awakening".
Ironically, given the condition of the United
States under the early Presidency of Barack Hussein Obama, the so-called
First African American-Black President, it strongly appears that "We the
People" did not heed his warning and America has opened its eyes to "a
rude awakening".
Below is The Promissory Note Rx prescription by
which we can mix the elixirs, medicines, remedies, procedures and
therapies for the Healing of America's weary Soul...
Excerpt From...
“I Have A Dream” Speech
August 28,1963 Lincoln Memorial
by the Late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
In a sense we
have come to our nation's capital to
cash a check.
When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the
Constitution and the Declaration o
f Independence, they were signing
a
promissory note
to which every American was to fall heir.
This note was a
promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
It is obvious
today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar
as her citizens of color are concerned.
Instead of
honoring
this sacred obligation,
America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come
back marked "insufficient funds."
But we refuse
to believe that the
bank of justice
is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in
the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.
So we have come
to cash this check
-- a check
that will give us
upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
