Bleeding Edge

With the infamous murder of an unarmed civilian at the hands of the Minneapolis police, now is the time to remember that black lives matter just as much as any other life, and the four dirty cops should be brought down and charged with murder one.

That is if we want to continue de-escalating the racial tensions that threaten to engulf our nation once again.

And for that it is important to remember the words of RFK upon hearing of the assassination of Martin Luther King and sharing these awful news with the people of Indianapolis.

It was here that Robert Kennedy used the immortal word of an ancient Greek Dramatist Aeschylus, who first voiced these words in describing the pathways of wisdom and humility through the awful pain of death and injustice, in order “To tame the savageness of Man and make gentle the life of this world.”

Certainly this was the greatest speech ever delivered by RFK and one for the ages, and it was the spirit moving RFK and the fact that it was never prepared, or written by a speech writer, and it was never read from a piece of paper, while there are numerous speeches that are life changing and timeless, they were almost all written and thought of much more than this speech that was delivered impromptu and straight from the heart .

This one was only written in Robert’s heart and delivered unaltered and unedited by an honest man whose heart was full of Love, Justice and Compassion.

Here is RFK’s speech:

“I have some very sad news for all of you, and I think sad news for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world, and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee.
Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort. In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it’s perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in.

For those of you who are black – considering the evidence evidently is, there were white people who were responsible – you can be filled with bitterness, and with hatred, and a desire for revenge.

We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization – black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand and to comprehend, and replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand, compassion and love.

For those of you who are black and are tempted to fill-be filled with hatred and mistrust of the injustice of such an act, against all white people, I would only say that I can also feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling. I had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man.

But we have to make an effort in the United States, we have to make an effort to understand, to get beyond and go beyond these rather difficult times.

My favorite poem, my favorite poet was Aeschylus. He once wrote: “Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own de-despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”

What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.

(Applause)

We can do well in this country. We will have difficult times. We’ve had difficult times in the past. And we will-we will have difficult times in the future. It is not the end of violence; it is not the end of lawlessness; and it’s not the end of disorder.

But the vast majority of white people and the vast majority of black people in this country want to live together, want to improve the quality of our life, and want justice for all human beings that abide in our land.

With-

(Interrupted by applause)

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people.

Thank you very much. (Applause)”

Robert F. Kennedy – April 4, 1968

Yours,

Dr Churchill

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