[img]2033|right|Dr. King||no_popup[/img]A candlelight vigil memorial on Saturday evening, the day after the 46th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination, will bring together whites and blacks for a 7:30 program just outside of the MLK Auditorium of the Santa Monica Library, 601 Santa Monica Blvd.
Reviving Dr. King’s “Table of Brotherhood” theme, the Los Angeles-Santa Monica Tea Party and the Capitol Hill National Caucus are sponsoring the program.
In the name of Dr. King, we will be seeking to fulfill his and America’s dream in which “…the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave holders will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.”
Regardless of the co-sponsors, we encourage all citizens, from Democrats, to Republicans, from Occupy Wall Street liberals to conservatives to independents to join us.
Most Americans who know the legacies of Dr. King celebrate his birth date of Jan. 15 as a national holiday. We are woefully lacking consciousness, however, for April 4, the date he was gunned down while standing on the balcony of a Memphis motel.
Most have forgotten that April 4 is the date on which the most significant civilian citizen in U.S. history was fatally shot.
Remembering Dr. King is the challenge to all Americans, regardless of ethno-racial identity and political affiliations in that, as we have forgotten this infamous date, the aspirations of the Dream that brings us to the Healed American Promised Land of the Vision has not yet been achieved.
The descendants of the Americans upon whose backs this nation of immigrants is built, disproportionately leads all others in nearly every negative, national, social statistic.
While being 12 percent of the general population, these unique Americans are almost three times the unemployment rate of others.
They represent over 60 percent of the homeless. Of the 2.5 million men in U.S. prisons, 1 million are black men. Forty-seven percent are serving life sentences without parole possibility.
Therefore, descendants of slaves and slave owners of Los Angeles who are presently seated at the Table of Brotherhood, are jointly re-committing themselves to fulfill the hope of the Promissory Note Dream. They are marching into the Healed American Promised Land of the Vision.
Young Dr. King said:
“With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.”
And “…we will be able to join hands and sing… ‘Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!’”
And “He has allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over….And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.”
See http://www.meetup.com/Los-Angeles-Tea-Party/events/172098782/
Mr. Hayes may be contacted at ted@tedhayes.us
