Rev. Meri Ka Ra, KRST Unity Center, 1/26

How long will it take for the
people of good will and intent to stand up for truth and justice? How much more
hypocrisy, in high places will the people of spiritual persuasion need to see
before they are compelled to act out? How much more duplicity and obvious lies
of Supreme Court nominees and other presidential appointees, pretending to be
fair and balanced will it take before we will demand the whole truth that a
three year old can see clearly but which seems to confound senators? How many
more American lives will it take? How many maimed, physically and emotionally
for life? Another 2,000 dead, 50,000 wounded; maybe 40,000.00 more Iraqis dead?
And then IRAN? North Korea, The Congo? And other African Land Reformation
Nations? I’m here speaking to the good people of America, the conscious people,
those who profess to believe in the dream. How long will it take?

I don’t even bother to ask
this question of those of you who believe that this nation and its western
minions have some God given right to the resources of other nations, those who
believe that white might, makes right! But just as those citizens of Nazi
Germany, whose hands were not directly murderous, have not escaped the judgment
of history; neither will we who do not act vigorously to Drive Out This
Terrorist Bush Regime and all regimes that despoil life. How long will it take?

History speaks to us through
my ancestor, Frederick Douglass “Let me give you a word of the philosophy
of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions
yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict
has been exciting, agitating all-absorbing, and for the time being, putting all
other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no
struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet
depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground,
they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the
awful roar of its many waters.’

“This struggle may be a
moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical,
but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never
did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and
you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be
imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either
words or blows or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the
endurance of those whom they oppress.’ The Environment can’t wait, Peace Can’t
wait Freedom Can’t wait. MAAT Can’t Wait, Truth, Justice, Righteousness,
Propriety Cant Wait.

The World Can’t WAIT! Drive
Out The Bush Regime!!

1/26/06 Rev. Richard Meri Ka
Ra Byrd