Justice

 A Long Time Coming

There been times when I thought I couldn't last for long

But now I think I'm able to carry on

It's been a long time coming

But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will 

“The Arc of the Moral Universe is Long, But it Bends Toward Justice.”

Love of county is NEVER demonstrated by the hatred of anyone who we believe should not be part of our country.  The injustice of chattel slavery drove this country to a Civil War.  Because we did not know better, we did not repudiate our sins but erected monuments to the Confederate traitors and adopted Jim Crow laws.  We broke our promises to immigrants, native Americans, and people of color.  If we are to move past the divisions that threaten to rend this country today, shouldn’t we acknowledge out faults, vow to never forget them, and take measures to correct them. 

We can have nostalgia for the good things in the past, but not at the process of throwing away our future.  We can have nostalgia for the good things in our past, while still acknowledging that there were also bad things in that same past.

Change may not have come when Sam Cooke wrote his song in 1964, but change not only is gonna come now, it HAS to come now.  It may have taken a long time, but the time for justice is now.