Instead of White Supremacy, CRT, intolerance, divisiveness, hatred---Choose Reconciliation and Beauty like Daybreak in Alabama by Hughes

Daybreak in Alabama

When I get to be a colored composer
I'm gonna write me some music about
Daybreak in Alabama
And I'm gonna put the purtiest songs in it
Rising out of the ground like a swamp mist
And falling out of heaven like soft dew
I'm gonna put some tall tall trees in it
And the scent of pine needles
And the smell of red clay after rain
And long red necks
And poppy colored faces
And big brown arms
And the field daisy eyes
Of black and white black white black people
And I'm gonna put white hands
And black hands and brown and yellow hands
And red clay earth hands in it
Touching everybody with kind fingers
Touching each other natural as dew
In that dawn of music when I
Get to be a colored composer
And write about daybreak
In Alabama.


Langston Hughes, "Daybreak in Alabama" from The Collected Works of Langston Hughes. Copyright © 2002 by Langston Hughes. Reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates, Inc.

DAYBREAK IN...the world

"Daybreak of Peace" by Martin Luther King Jr.

"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight
of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality."

"...nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral question of our time
...nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for
social transformation."

"Sooner or later all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live
together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into
a creative psalm of brotherhood
...which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love."

"I refuse...a militaristic stairway into the hell...I believe that unarmed truth
and unconditional love will have the final word in reality."

"I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history.
I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature
makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness"
that forever confronts him."

"I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsom and jetsom
in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events
which surround him."

"I refuse to accept the view that mankind
is so tragically bound to the starless midnight
of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace
and brotherhood can never become a reality."

--Martin Luther King Jr.
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-acceptance_en.html
Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 1964
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Every person,
every individual,
every human is of inherent worth, is utterly unique, is so valuable!

We need to oppose those in Christianity, Islam, and other ideologies which demean, oppress, and harm others.

We need to reach out to those who are misguided, troubled, deceived...


Live in the Light,

Daniel Wilcox