Dear Donald Trump,
It is three AM (GMT) this early Saturday Morning, May possibly 30, as I stick to developments concerning the nationwide protests at the moment getting staged as a consequence of the brutal murder of George Floyd at the hands of your law enforcement officers.
Mr. President, surely the scenes oozing out of downtown Atlanta are really worrisome as comparable scenes evolve throughout key metropolitan areas in the United States of The united states. Really the land of the totally free and the house of the courageous has not lived up to its bill of rights and liberty as enshrined in the sacred scrolls of the Declaration of Independence.
As I watch protesters assault the CNN Headquarters in Atlanta, I see the anger and frustration of citizens of your wonderful country throughout the political and racial divide, all clamouring for the justice that is promised in your nation’s philosophical examine e-book.
Alas! What is taking place in America right now would be odd only to these who have no understanding of the prophesies of the late Martin Luther King Junior who (57 years ago) boldly asserted the inconvenient real truth as follows:
“When the architects of our republic wrote the wonderful words and phrases of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they have been signing a promissory note to which every American was to tumble heir. This observe was a guarantee that all gentlemen, sure, black gentlemen as nicely as white gentlemen (My Lord), would be certain the unalienable legal rights of daily life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is clear right now that America has defaulted on this promissory be aware insofar as her citizens of coloration are worried. (My Lord) Alternatively of honoring this sacred obligation, The us has offered the Negro people a poor check out, a check which has arrive back again marked inadequate resources.”
The Donald, it is your misfortune that today (more than at any time ahead of), the African race, is all set and eager to need justice and equality. It falls inside the period of time of your reign that the sons and daughters of the crowd solemnly assembled at the Nationwide Monument on that fateful working day in 1963, when M.L.K. created that historic speech, stand prepared and bold to desire that your federal reserves of justice honour that promissory observe and no pressure on earth can stop this motion.
You have been eccentric, provocative and down correct maliciously egocentric, but this is not the time to endeavor any egomaniacal shenanigans. You must increase up to the celebration and solution to the phone for justice to be shipped in the issue of George Floyd. Your place yearns for management and you have woefully unsuccessful to increase to the celebration amidst your government’s shambolic technique to the current the COVID-19 pandemic.
Now, listed here will come an additional tragedy on your doorsteps searching for the proper mix of legal and sociological answers that would mend and reunite the United States of The usa. Will you response to this proverbial three A.M telephone contact that previous Presidential prospect Hillary Clinton warned all presidential aspirant about?
Whatsoever your answer to the foregoing question could be, you are far better off carrying out some authentic soul-searching and wide-primarily based consultation ahead of you hit your Twitter handle.
In parting, Mr. President, I refer you to a warning posted to your place of work a lot more than fifty percent a century ago that mail was addressed to your business office by no less an illumined soul than the reverend pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, “the value that The us have to spend for the continued oppression of the Negro and other minority groups is the price of its own destruction. (Of Plush Toys is) For the hour is late. And the clock of future is ticking out. We must act now prior to it is also late.”