01-22-2019, 08:58 AM
I have always appreciated the fact that in Hawaii everyone is a minority.
We can only wonder how often MLK thought back to his time in the islands. Would Hawaii emerge as the land of promise, a place where equal rights and racial tolerance already existed in some degree? Although not perfect, during in the late 1950's and early 1960's our islands might have offered a vision, a real world example he could carry forward as he continued on his journey:
"As I think of the struggle that we are engaged in in the South land, we look to you (Hawaii) for inspiration and as a noble example, where you have already accomplished in the area of racial harmony and racial justice, what we are struggling to accomplish in other sections of the country, and you can never know what it means to those of us caught for the moment in the tragic and often dark midnight of man’s inhumanity to man, to come to a place where we see the glowing daybreak of freedom and dignity and racial justice.”
Perhaps an ephemeral but lucid memory of the islands may even have inspired the words:
"And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land."
We can only wonder how often MLK thought back to his time in the islands. Would Hawaii emerge as the land of promise, a place where equal rights and racial tolerance already existed in some degree? Although not perfect, during in the late 1950's and early 1960's our islands might have offered a vision, a real world example he could carry forward as he continued on his journey:
"As I think of the struggle that we are engaged in in the South land, we look to you (Hawaii) for inspiration and as a noble example, where you have already accomplished in the area of racial harmony and racial justice, what we are struggling to accomplish in other sections of the country, and you can never know what it means to those of us caught for the moment in the tragic and often dark midnight of man’s inhumanity to man, to come to a place where we see the glowing daybreak of freedom and dignity and racial justice.”
Perhaps an ephemeral but lucid memory of the islands may even have inspired the words:
"And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land."
"I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right - have fun." - Keanu Reeves