Tomorrow's Paradox

Each year I try to write something for the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. Although it is usually celebrated today, this year it's tomorrow – the day of Trump's inauguration. Dr King exemplified peace, equality, justice. Trump represents the opposite. He brings with him a retinue of homogeneous billionaires who care more for their lower taxes and special interests than the American people.

     Along with many others, I have tried to write about this and warn of the dangerous waters we are walking into. Now it is not only Trump, but his entourage that concerns those who share my opinion. Already the tide has changed. This country has been an expanding plutocracy for years. There are now over 800 US billionaires, 15 who have more than 100 billion. This number will only increase along with the number of homeless the supreme court has ordered off our streets.

     To have more poor and homeless and less diversity was not Dr King's objective. I'd like to believe that the arc of the moral universe bends toward justice, but it is difficult to hold that truth.

        “The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.”

                        Martin Luther King, Jr

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness.”

                                The Declaration of Independence