{"id":40907,"date":"2020-08-28T10:36:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T17:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40907"},"modified":"2020-08-28T10:36:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T17:36:30","slug":"dont-let-trump-kill-mlks-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/08\/28\/dont-let-trump-kill-mlks-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Let Trump* Kill MLK&#8217;s Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0828KingDream\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0828KingDream\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/0828KingDream.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"409\">&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Martin Luther King, Jr. influenced my political thinking more than any other individual.&nbsp; I was fortunate to have worked under him on Vietnam Summer and to have been present on the Washington Mall fifty-seven years ago today on August 28, 1963. It\u2019s hard to believe that we are once again fighting the battle to secure the voting rights won as a result of his dream, and to restore them, where racist Republicans are outlawing the right to vote. Will his dream survive?<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff\">This is almost a repost of last years article.&nbsp; I updated it to fit the situation today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/I47Y6VHc3Ms?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Last night Trump* violated the Hatch Act by using the White House Rose Garden as an Republican National Convention prop.&nbsp; He spewed an unprecedented stream of lies, hate, and racism, while blaming Democrats and Blacks for the plague and economic devastation spread by his own incompetence.&nbsp; If Trump* can steal the 2020 election, America as we knew it will cease to be.&nbsp; Never before has there been such a threat that Dr. King&#8217;s dream will be destroyed by the Republican Reich!&nbsp; Will it survive or will defacto slavery, in which Blacks, Latinos and poor Whites slave to serve the interests of greedy Republican billionaires and corporate criminals? The choice is Dr. Kings dream or a permanent National Socialist Republican Reich.&nbsp; The outcome of that choice depends on what YOU do NOW!<\/span> <\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">RESIST!!<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Martin Luther King, Jr. influenced my political thinking more than any other individual.&nbsp; I was fortunate to have worked under him on Vietnam Summer and to have been present on the Washington Mall fifty-seven years ago today on August 28, 1963. It\u2019s hard to believe that we are once again fighting the battle to <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/08\/28\/dont-let-trump-kill-mlks-dream\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5],"tags":[3734,3746,3849,3748,3743,3714],"class_list":["post-40907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","category-politics","tag-gop-hate","tag-gop-incompetence","tag-mlk","tag-racism","tag-republican-reich","tag-video","category-19-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}