Trump adjacent lawmakers diagnosed with the virus continues to grow. As with last nights broadcast, i wont invoke karma as some have done, but it deserves mention that so many of the elected officials were willing to risk their lives, not for conservative principle or moral objection, but in political bondage to one man who is now indeterminantly ill. And on the heels of this diagnosis, seems to have finally realized just how real this pandemic is and has been for more than 7 million people, more than 200,000 of whom have lost their lives while he modulated the danger for his own ends. Many assume because the hottest spots were places republicans didnt lead, at least at the beginning. But this week the gop learned just how far this pandemic has grown beyond minorities living in blue state cities, though they continue to disproportionately suffer in every way. No, donald trump cynically played with his supporters lives, too. But threw enough red meat along the way to make believe they a
Sight, in the street, in our statehouses. And if complicit is violence, well, then whats most worrisome is the reaction of President Trump to the moment because imagine for a second that a group of islamic terrorists tried to kill a governor. He would have expanded his muslim ban to include americans traveling between states. Imagine that a group of mexican immigrants tried to kill a governor. Trumps border wall might actually be reality instead of a scuttled campaign promise. Imagine if it was a group of black lives matter protesters that tried to kill a governor. Oh, cousin, trump might actually try to ban the color black or replace in god we trust with law and order. But because it was, in fact, a group of white supremists who tried to kill and kidnap a governor, one who defied him, trump decided to attack that governor, one, because anything else would send the wrong signal to his base and, two, because he sees no dichotomy in invoking marshall law for leftleaning protesters and tu
Will be emptier, in some cases made so in the span of only a few days as covid cases spike in state after state, day after day. Nearly 13 million americans infected going into the thanksgiving holiday. More than a quarter of a million families missing someone this week. And for millions of us fortunate enough to still draw breath, chests have been tightened not by covid but by the ensuing economic catastrophe. But our president , donald trump, the main person tasked with overseeing our full recovery from the pandemic, hes more concerned than ever with the title of president and denying it to president elect joe biden, than actually doing the job in an uncommonly dangerous time for our nation. More on that in a minute. Of course the pain of the nation is hurtling towards what could be tamped down in part by additional pandemic relief. But the same gop senators who insist all the president s fraudulent claims of fraud be borne out and taken seriously, they are telling the American People
To galvanize and energyize our collective consciences to take action to realize the dream. He has been an elected leader, the president of a southern christian leader conference, the head of the Martin Luther king jr. Center for nonviolent social change, the founder of realizing the dream. He is a National Civil rights champion, a Global Human Rights crusader. He is the father of yo landa renee, the husband of andrew waters, the big brother of dexter and bern niece, the younger brother of the late dwro landa denees. Born of cortea scott king and the namesake of dr. Martin luther king, jr. , ladies and gentlemen, Martin Luther king iii. Five decades ago, my father dr. Martin luther king, jr. , stood upon this hallowed spot. And the spirit of god spoke through him and summoned the nation to repent and to redress the shameful sins long visited upon its African American brothers and sisters. 50 years ago, he delivered a sermon on this mountain which crystalized like never before the painfu
And others understood the intersection between racial equality and economic justice. The civil rights struggle is a struggle for good jobs and decent wages. And no while not the only solution they got, that Educational Opportunities is the highway to Economic Opportunity, which is why we must reclaim the promise of Public Education. And as i close, let me just say this, we stand here today as students, my friend and brother lee saunders, and myself, 50 years ago another gay person had to be in the shadows. But today i speak as a teacher, a worker, a labor activist, and a gay person deeply committed to my faith. \his is who we must be. A country that believes in equality and acts on that belief. So lets take a lesson from king. Lets unite. People of faith in a national day of prayer. To end Child Poverty. Lets use sitins to oppose stand your ground laws. Lets have freedom ring for the message of equality to save regards to immigrants as anything less than equal. And let all of us, not s