DU -- Part of the Beloved Community

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I won't end that with a question mark but will affirm it as a positive.

From early this morning when I saw Rep. John Lewis speak on Journal on C-Span, to the commemoration of the spot where MLK Jr. gave his "I have a Dream Speech" to the march going on now what a wonderful day. I have cried and laughed and cursed. Yet, I feel my spirits more lifted that I have in months.
The Beloved Community is all of us who believe in peace, justice and equality. Rep. Lewis and others have spoken of it all day today. We are the Beloved Community, if we believe in equality, justice and love for all of our brothers and sisters. We don't look at gender, race, religion, color, ethnicity, sexual preference to determine your worth. Your worth is measured as MLK said by the "content of your character not the color of your skin."

For too long we have allowed others with an opposite agenda of greed, discrimation, inequality etc. to divide the Beloved Community. Now we must come together and admit that while we have differences among ourselves those differences are not great enough to divide us and we must stand together to bring our country back to where it should be.

All of this has been said today at the march and much more. I hope folks will catch the repeat.

My own thought on this is that George Bush may indeed have united us more than he could ever have thought. We are all coming together to defeat this evil and I truly do believe it is evil walking and running our country today.

Each of us can do something to support the Beloved Community and see MLK's dream of true equality and justice come back to our country.

I salute all of my brothers and sisters in the Beloved Community of DU.