Jeebus. Christ.

[heelzebub]

The document they produced was eventually signed but ultimately unfinished. It was stained by this nation's original sin of slavery, a question that divided the colonies and brought the convention to a stalemate until the founders chose to allow the slave trade to continue for at least twenty more years, and to leave any final resolution to future

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[sweeneybird]

Thanks for posting this - I hadn't seen the transcript. He's truly inspiring.

[mgbutterfly]

Word.

I have tears in my eyes.

One of the women in the office was RANTING about this speech. She was furious and all I could do was sit quietly and stew. It's ignorance like hers that will hold this nation back.

I believe deeply that we cannot solve the challenges of our time unless we solve them together - unless we perfect our union by understanding that we may have different stories, but we hold common hopes; that we may not look the same and we may not have come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction - towards a better future for of children and our grandchildren.

I just... yeah. Yeah.

[heelzebub]

This reminds me of my favorite MLKJ quote: "The arc of history is long but it bends toward justice." God, I hope so.