I will post this here, because it is important.
Wednesday was a pivotal day in American history.
Hours before the riot, Reverend Raphael Warnock was elected as a senator from Georgia, helping ensure a Democratic senate majority.
Reverend Warnock is the pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, the church that Dr Martin Luther King Jr once led.
On a hot summer day in 1963, standing on the same Capitol steps where Trump protesters taunted cops, Dr King delivered his “I Have A Dream” speech.
https://1v1d1e1lmiki1lgcvx32p49h8fe-...es-2674125.jpgBlack American civil rights leader Martin Luther King addressed crowds at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, where he gave his ‘I Have A Dream’ speech. Photo: GettyIt was a plea to the ideals housed in the building behind him.
Black Americans had endured 250 years of slavery and 80 years of Jim Crow terrorism, but Dr King did not try to incite mob rage.
He did not try to stir the crowd of 250,000 – far larger than Trump’s – to occupy the building they stood before.
Unlike last week’s self-deluding mobs, black Americans who listened to Dr King that day in 1963 had truly endured centuries of a “rigged” system and “stolen” votes.
But Dr King appealed to the promise of the American experiment, to the rule of law, to the inexorable power of the ballot.
He was not patient, but he was also not petulant.
He urged the crowd to harness their energy, not indulge their grievance.
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