Today I come before you humbly with anger and frustration in my heart but a spirit of hope and prosperity in my soul. I come before you today with a simple quote that I live by each and every day. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said that “An Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” That is a quote that all of us need to not just know but we need to understand. We are in a time where an attack on justice and equality is something that America can’t afford to witness. For far too long we have been blind to the facts and our blindness has lead to our destruction.
Our blindness has weakened our status in the world and our ignorance could lead to our own demise. That’s why if we don’t act now to rewrite the wrongs of our past than we are only repeating the hardships that many of our ancestors faced. We can’t be blind to injustices and think that they will go away over night. We can’t be ignorant to what our nation is facing and what the people of our nation are facing.
We need to stop being blind to bigotry, discrimination, racism, sexism and any other –isms in this country. We need tolerance people. We need religious tolerance, ethnic tolerance, and gender tolerance. Today we can mark an end to discrimination if we all work together to not only act but to speak up when we witness it.
Wake up America! Wake up people! We can no longer be blind to what we are hearing and witnessing. We can’t allow our family members, our friends and our neighbors to spit hatred and discriminatory comments toward other people and ethnicities. If we don’t stand up and speak up now than we are no better than those who witnessed hatred in the south 40 years ago.
If we don’t do anything to help those who are being discriminated against or to fight against those who practice inequality and injustices than we are no better than those who hide behind the white clothes of the Ku Klux Klan. Wake up America! We can’t continue to preach equality if we allow others who we associate with to be bigots, sexists, and racists. We can’t continue to work on behalf of justice and equality but we associate with those who are discriminating against others.
We are no better than those folks in fact we are worse. We are hypocrites if we continue to associate and call those people who discriminate and participate in inequality and injustices our friends. We are hypocrites when we don’t speak up and call our own family members, friends and neighbors out when they are spitting poisonous venom that is untrue about others. We can’t continue to allow this people.
Our nation deserves better and we should know better. We can’t continue to allow our nation to go down the path of ignorance that has plagued our nation’s history for centuries and decades. When will we learn that our blindness to hatred and discrimination leaves a bad mark and scar on our nation’s image?
Just look around you people. Look around you and ask yourself why we as a people have ignored the cries of justice that so many scream for. Wake up people! Why have we continued to befriend those among us who belittle and discriminate against others who they don’t even take the time to understand yet alone take the time to learn about them?
Wake up America! When will we get tough about justice and equality? Wake up people! When will we get tough toward each other and holding each other accountable for our actions as well as our words? Wake up! We can no longer allow people to be brainwashed by movies such as Birth of a Nation that depict discriminatory images and acts.
We can no longer allow people to discriminate against Arab Americans because of the way they dress and we can no longer allow people to call them terrorists as if only those of Middle Eastern descent are terrorists. Do we not remember the Oklahoma City bombing? Wake up people! We can no longer allow our men to put their hands on women no matter what a woman does to them. Wake up men, we are better than that.
We can’t allow people to discriminate against different ethnic groups because they dress differently, talk differently or practice religious beliefs differently. This is not what America is about. We are better than that people and the sooner we realize that the better we will be as a nation. Wake up America! We can’t allow acts of violence against others to go by without us calling it out.
We can’t continue to be a nation that is blind to injustices and we can’t continue to be a nation that calls itself a melting pot when we discriminate against our very own. Wake up America! We can’t continue to call ourselves the beckon of hope when we diminish the hopes of so many by participating in intolerance, injustices and discrimination. Wake up people!
We are better than that people! We are not a nation that divides people but we are a nation that unites people. We can’t be united unless we fight against injustices. We can’t be united unless we fight against discrimination. We can’t be united unless we fight against racism. We can’t be united unless we fight against sexism. We can’t be united unless we fight against bigotry. America wake up!
Wake up people, we can’t be a better nation until we fight inequality and injustices everywhere that it rears its ugly head. Wake up people, we can’t be a greater nation until we stop discrimination and weed it out wherever it tries to evolve. Wake up people, we all must fight to end discrimination.
Wake up America! We can’t allow ethnic injustices to continue. We just can’t allow religious intolerance to reign supreme. We can’t allow our nation to be destroyed by the few who would rather see us divided than united. Wake up America!
How can we call ourselves a nation of equality if we don’t practice and preach tolerance? We all need to make sure everyone of us is doing our part to teach tolerance, to teach peace and to teach love. We all need to make sure we are doing our part to practice tolerance, to practice peace and to practice love. We all have to do our part to call those people out who teach and practice hatred, inequality and bigotry.
This is our moment to shine. This is our moment of hope. This is our moment of justice. Will we finally stand up and make it happen? Will we finally stand up and make sure we live out our nation’s promise? Will we finally stand up and make sure we live out our nation’s beckon of hope?
Wake up America! We cannot call ourselves justice fighters and equality seekers if we don’t fight against those who are our family, friends and neighbors that spit discriminatory language and hatred. Wake up people! We must fight to end discrimination now and forever!
Wake up America! Discrimination must be stopped not just today, not just tomorrow but forever! Stop discrimination not just now but right now! America, we are better than that and we must now start to show it like never before.
America, Fight to End Discrimination Now and Forever!
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