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The Quality of American Instruction/ Our Sense of Humanity

Martin Luther King. I Have A Dream speech. 1963 at the Washington D.C. Lincoln Monument. Just as the Word of God is the essential life instruction book of the sons of Abraham, the role of a smart, dynamic education is vital to the well-being of the American citizen and the larger American community.   How does the understanding of the most cherished precepts found in the words of the two main documents of our Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, vary according to the understanding, appreciation, and insight of the professors and teachers? Our sense of humanity is strengthened, denigrated, sharpened, and made dull according to the quality of instruction we receive, creating and sustaining an educational and overall leadership divide in America. Think about Frederick Douglass for a moment; his rise as an outspoken citizen was initially launched with his self-education and through the combined efforts of the network of caring members in the local and ...

That That Remains

   1  What do we have that remains in America, but the understanding of the ideas of what quality of life we must cherish. The passion of John Adams and the strength and foresight of Abigail Adams, the steadfast, sentinel-like watch and altruism of their son John Quincy, the intellectual rigor, and good samaritan ways of Frederick Douglass with his unyielding love of what America must always attain to; the calm and enduring bravado of Abraham Lincoln, and the steady, methodical march of attorney Thurgood Marshall. What do we have that remains in America after all has been said and discussed, but the vision and work of love of Martin Luther King who chose to hate the evil deeds of his fellow citizens, but not the doer of the deeds themselves. Hate had no quarter in him, vengeance was not of his repertoire, violence had no talons in his heart. And what of President Ronald Reagan who broke ranks with political thought on March 8, 1983 in a speech that reverberated across eve...

The Rebirth of America/ Only Love Will Keep Us Together

1 Politics is not about doing the right thing. It is a instrument of strategy to attain legislative, executive, and judiciary power using government as another tool, wherein the winners achieve these different outlets of power, along with prominent employment, and a platform to further maintain such combinations of power. The complete effect is the establishment of particular visions. 2020 is a presidential election year on the heels of a vicious political campaign mounted by a ā€˜political leftā€™ conglomeration of printed news, internet & social media companies, large swaths of the entertainment industry, university-level academic institutions and the current Democrat Party against what appears to be an attempt to remove President Donald Trump from the executive office of the presidency.  He is on the political right and has sided with a conservative, America-centric perspective that is anathema (completely the opposite) to the work of the last three presidents, spanning 24...

That Long Forgotten Early Battle

ā€œWe will not recognize the true value of our own lives until we affirm the value in the life of others..ā€ President Ronald Reagan Quincy, Ma., June 17th, 1775: John Quincy Adams stands upon a mountain beholding the British-American Battle of Bunker Hill, a sweeping conflagration encompassing two hills, the shore line, and water. An awesome sight of what was thought to be the most highly-trained, most well-dressed soldiers in red coats & white against a rag tag army of poor, untrained civilians. The scene took place in Boston Harbor with awesome man-of-war ships cannoning onto land, and ranks of soldiers both ā€˜holding the lineā€™ and charging forward against each other. What is the value of liberty? What moves fellow man to pick up the gun  and defend the liberty of his life and that of his fellow countrymen? John Quincy Adams was nine years old as he watched the scene of gallantry, horror, and spectacle with his mother. His father, a leader in the Cont...

Life & Liberty: Those Undisputed Champions of America

The Champion of America, Frederick Douglass ā€œThe education of the nation is paramount, and should not be neglected. We should recognize the absolute necessity of elevating our citizens of whatever class or condition from ignorance, from degradation, from superstition, from pauperism, from crime. It is an accepted axiom, I believe everywhere, that the more intelligent the citizen is the better citizen he is.ā€ Congressman Richard Cain , South Carolina, 1875 at the House Of Representatives The Reconstruction Era of 1870 to 1901 was a remarkable time wherein 22 Americans of black skin color , with legislative agendas on increasing education, political rights, and economic independence  became Congressmen in our nationā€™s capital. The mere presence of former slaves in positions of governmental authority represented a tremendous victory for America, as it pertains to its fulfillment of the constitutional ideas of equal justice, life, and liberty for all.   Republi...