A Dream Etched Across
Monday, Janurary 19, 2009 G.A.T.F.C will be holding a free concert at Penn State Harrisburg in Middletown Pa. We will be in concert at the Student Center, Capital Union Building 4-6 pm. Check out this dynamic choir who is looking to live the Dream in which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr talked about. Be blessed.
A Dream Is Etched Across
In a sense we have come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Martin Luther King Jr (I Have A Dream Speech August, 1963)
At a motel your life was taken,
but before you left you breathed
upon us the unmistakable truth
that God was truly real.
Now in the shadow of our first
president whom is an African-
American we are left with zeal.
Immersed with the trust of God
that we will make insufficient funds
turn into an overwhelming amount
of sufficiency that will last beyond
generations.
We will take the unalienable rights,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
with an excellence with which your
dream was etched upon.
As I write and remember, as I remem-
ber and write.
I fight with the toils and struggles
of a once proud kingdom of kings
and queens known now as a royal
priesthood.
Never taking serious that we are a
priesthood.
Royalty begets royalty.
When the King spoke to a king and
said dare to dream.
When the dream was realized as a
true possibility for those who still
struggle with an identity that is for
some unimaginable.
No more excuses because we no
longer come into the back door but
we now have decided to live in the
white house.
The victory in November was far more
than a super bowl championship.
This dream was even further back
than 1963.
When THE KING stretched his arms
out wide he gave power to Rev King
that allowed him to bring change with
no gun but a loaded mind.
I have a dream but it is stretched
further than bling.
His dream was etched on the back
of the negro slave with each whelp
that marked his colored skin.
His dream was etched beyond the Uncle
Tom whom we needed on the inside
that made people try to accept us
even if they was light skinned.
His dream was in the voting line of
the black folks who were lynched,
or burned because of a check mark.
His dream made rational the fact that
a man by the name of Barack Obama
could be called “Mr. President.”
His dream is etched into the rising hurt
of a society still dripping with closet
racism called equal rights.
His dream is still etched inside the young
lady who is looking for a man with her
thighs instead of with God’s eyes.
His dream is still etched inside of the
young man who is looking for love but
the only voice he hears has nine stretched
onto a piece of steel.
His dream is still etched in the fact that
he marched for desegregation but we
stay going to just black or white churches.
Oh his dream still is etched in a society
that thinks it is ok for pregnant mothers
to be fighting in Chuck-E-Cheese and we
find entertainment of it from YouTube.
His dream is still etched in the fact that
old folks no longer seem to give wisdom
but bent criticism bordering on condemnation.
His dream is still etched in the voice you
give your children when you find it ok
to beat up on people and you think it
is cute.
His dream is still etched into the young
girl who knows how to drop it like its
hot but can’t say her abc’s.
His dream is still etched into the talent
of a many youth and young men and woman
who just need someone to listen.
His dream is still etched in the fact that
one can call himself Big Husky and still
be taken seriously.
His dream is still etched in places like the
schools of your neighborhood, the neighborhood
center, the boys and girls club, or even
the ymca.
The dream lives but will it continue to be
a nightmare or the dream in which Dr. King
said
And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
But not only that:
Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
Free at last! Free at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
In Martin Luther King Jr we were blessed to be graced with the presence of a fearless leader. A prophetic man of God. Most importantly someone who died without the real credit nor love of a thankless job. Much like Jesus before him {He was not Jesus} he stamped approval for men and women to be equal no matter the color. Dr.King was, is, and always be a great man. Will you live the dream or keep making excuses to why the dream will never be seen? In honor of Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
Darnell “B.I.G. Husky” Roebuck
Life Chronicles With Big Husky
P.O. Box 13081
Harrisburg, Pa 17110
717-623-2394
thedarroeway@yahoo.com
www.myspace.com/officiallybighusky08
B.I.G. Husky
Believe.In.God. Husky
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