Time to Suit Up and Show Up
Where are
the Martin Luther King Jr’s of today? The Kennedy’s- John and Robert, Eleanor
and Franklin Roosevelt, A Phillip Randolph. Roy Wilkins, Huey Newton, Mahatma
Ghandi, Andrew Young, Nelson Mandela, Pete Seegar and Woodie Guthrie. The Jim Brown’s,
Jackie Robinson’s and Muhammad Ali’s of our day?
Where’s Obama- Barack and Michele?- George Clooney
and Meryl Streep?
Where’s Biden? Where’s Newsom and Buttigieg, Warren
and Sanders?
Where are Bill Clinton and George
Bush and Nancy Pelosi, Corey booker and Jesse Jackson? Where’s Lebron James and Steph
Curry? MLB, the NFL and the NBA?
Where are
the well-known, respected athletes and actors to whom people will listen to and
heed their pleas for calm and safety and to question police killings?
Where are
the so-called religious leaders of America and why are they not gathering to
peacefully march with the protestors to demand structural changes and to help
quell violence and destruction?
If not now, when? If not for this,
then for what?
Where are
the so-called national leaders now? He judges, the mayors and other elected
officials, and why are they not in the streets saving lives and property and
questioning authority?
When in the
history of America have we needed leaders, more than now, of stature and honor
to step forward, don their face masks and gloves and lead the protestors all
across the American cities? Cities that are in flames and where for too long,
black young men have perished, are dying and will be murdered in the future?
It’s time to Suit Up and
Show Up and Save the Nation
If Not Now, When?
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