What Would Martin Luther King Do?

Coming from the left,
I get a lot of grief these days
for not giving the guy
a chance.
One, two years they say,
they always say,
but not today,
no change
today.
When I see that the policies
have not changed,
that the police
are using
experimental weapons
against
Americans
right here at home …

Do not forget:
St. Paul,
or Denver,
or Pittsburgh,
…
or Greensburg,
or New Orleans.

Do not forget:
That what is happening
right here at home,
today
are the same extended
policies
of the Bush Doctrine
today,
under this administration.

These are policies
that the executive branch
has control over;
that the President
can change
today,
without having to go through Congress.
Yet today,
this day,
November 2nd, 2009
21,000 more troops,
American soldiers,
left their homes,
to kill or be killed,
in Afghanistan,
today.

And I still hear the President
today
say, that protestors
are just a distraction.

And I just ask myself,
“What would Martin Luther
King do?”


He’d hold the President
accountable.