Gov. Walker, You Don't Declare War On Your Own People!

I have been thinking a lot about the last recorded words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., before a lone gunman took his life as he rested on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.   It was 43 years ago this month that Dr. King traveled to Memphis to join the city’s public sanitation workers who had finally had enough of the abuses by their government, that they walked off the job and staged a 64-day strike.  The “poor people's campaign” was in full swing, led by a public employees union, and it would be Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s last stand against injustice.  It was the night before his assassination that he spoke these eloquent words,

“We've got some difficult days ahead.  But it doesn't matter with me now…And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land.”

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