Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! WE ARE ON OUR WAY!

BEAT, BEAT THE BIG BRASS DRUM!

BLOW, BLOW THE BIG BRASS BUGLE!

SHAKE, SHAKE THE TINSEL TAMBOURINE

SING, SHOUT, AND STAMP YOUR FEET!

HALLELUJAH! WE ARE ON OUR WAY!

Yes, we have come along way – these United States of America.  As a young nation we have made great strides along the Avenue of Understanding.

Looking back at our troubled past, we had an early legacy of genocide against the indigenous natives of the America, slavery, indentured servitude, women’s suffrage, child labor, repeated violent clashes against the greed of the priviledged few, segregation, sharecroppers peonage, homelessness, hunger, and wars forged on the anvil of profit and empire.  Yet, we rose to elect a Christian of African heritage to the highest office of the land – President of the United States of America!  Many Americans, and those not American, rejoiced while while others were angry and fearful.  There were also those in high places who vowed to oppose the new President’s every effort to bring about the promised change of his campaign.

Today, in the year 2011, almost three years have passed and many who rejoiced in the year 2009 are troubled because this President, in their opinion, has done little to ease the suffering of the poor, the unemployed, the millions facing foreclosures and eviction, and the rising spectre of hunger now prevalent among the nation’s families and their children.  Many of the nation’s young men and women fortunate enough to return from combat alive are returning mentally and physically injured.   Financing  wars and other covert actions which have no visible meaning or purpose, has caused our economy to stagnate in an unrelenting recession.  Also, there are others who are beginning to question overt and covert assassinations as well as the sending of troops to distant lands to kill and destroy in the name of democracy and freedom, while punishing entire populations (i.e. Cuba, Haiti, the Hamas West Bank, etc.) for embracing leadership we unilaterally reject; yet we have also supported oppressive regimes whose people are now marching in search of freedom.  Have not our giant corporations plundered foreign nations of their mutual treasure and impoverished their people?

Why do we rejoice, one might ask, if the above has validity?  I say this – It is up to you, the individual, to bring about the “CHANGE” we so desperately need.  Study and examine our history;  not the history taught in schools or promulgated by a controlled media; rather go to the libraries, the internet and your neighbors!  Seek knowledge from those now living to truthfully testify as to the reality of their time.

We have come a long way and have yet a long way to travel, but HALLELUJAH!  WE SHALL REACH THE PROMISED LAND!  Has it not been written, “…And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free…JOHN, 8:32.

Come my brothers and sisters!  Be seekers and speakers of the truth, for therein lies the salvation of our civilization and this planet!   PEACE!