Mr. Obama, This Is What A Statesman Should Look Like In The Face of Ferguson

[Jack Rabbit]

16. I was 16 when that speech was given

I remember the time. The bitterest thing about 1968 is that after Dr. King and Senator Kennedy were assassinated, Richard Nixon was elected president on the "Southern strategy." That was a bitter pill to swallow.

The divisions that plagued us in the sixties are still with us today. Through a generation of Republican misleadership of Nixon, Reagan and the Bushes, all willfully ignorant of the divisions between rich and poor that they exacerbated, we now see an alarming divide and a culture of entitlement by the rich who believe they should be able to steal everything we commoners have earned. Thoughout the time since 1968, we have seen more racism at home at abroad, where the racism takes the form of an imperialist war. What's worse, it doesn't even take a Republican to pave the getaway route for the thieves on Wall Street or bomb brown people into submission any more. Nowadays when I hear the usual Democratic platitudes from politicians trying to appeal to the masses, I can't help but hear cynical cackling from the cloakroom.

There are no worthy political leaders any more. The only way to get elected is to take tainted money, whether it comes from the fascist Koch brothers backing Republicans or crooked bankers backing Democrats.

This has left us on our own. We really are the knights in shining armor for whom we have been waiting all these years.