If you read nothing else today, please take a few moments to read this speech, delivered by the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy almost 2 months to the day before his fatal shooting.
Then reflect on what was stolen from us all...
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It is truly amazing just how far we have come in so few generations. This speech could not even be imagined today. And if a semblance of it were spoken by any of the political hacks of this era, the speech would be given and taken cynically.
As my good friend Bob Carroll was wont to say "This world is FUCKING BEAUTIFUL"
So true. If you go to the site where the RFK speech is, you will find a tab marked "speeches" (I think). Go there and click on the link to the speech he made, largely off-the-cuff, to an audience of African-Americans in Indianapolis on the night on which MLK, Jr. was murdered. I have never been able to make it through that speech-- whether reading it, listening to it, or seeing it on tape (somebody was present with a camera when he made the speech)-- without weeping.
Obama wants to be the black RFK. Well, it is a worthy goal; I fear however that you need to undergo real tragedy in your life before you can reach the place he reached, intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, in the weeks before he died.
We are continually denied visionary leadership. Continually denied it. We deny it to ourselves. That's the truly mind-blowing thing. We deny it to ourselves.
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