April 4

April 4 is the day Martin Luther King was assassinated.

One man come in the name of love
One man come and go
One man come, he to justify
One man to overthrow

In the name of love
What more in the name of love?
In the name of love
What more in the name of love?

One man caught on a barbed wire fence
One man, he resist
One man washed on an empty beach
One man betrayed with a kiss

In the name of love
What more in the name of love?
In the name of love
What more in the name of love?

Nobody but you
Somebody lied to you (It's all right)
Somebody to you
(The bright line)
(It's all ready, mate)
(It's the right time)

Early morning, April four
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride

In the name of love
What more in the name of love?
In the name of love
What more in the name of love?
In the name of love 
What more in the name of love?
In the name of love
What more in the name of love?

__________

Does anyone still share this dream?

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

...when we allow freedom [to] ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

Free at last! Free at last!

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

And how are we doing as a nation today? Any better than in the 1960s?

In my grad course on ecclesiology, Father Komonchak flatly asked, Since Jesus, has the world become a better place?