We are here to stay
As I sat having my morning coffee on Sunday, the day before the national holiday celebrating Martin Luther King Jr., it was one more day I agonized over and lamented the day that the Electoral College named Donald Trump as president-elect.
Above and beyond the hundreds of proven lies, distortions and falsifications made by Trump, now comes perhaps one of his most slanderous tweets. I speak of his latest smear of Congressman John Lewis days before the national holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
Of all people Trump has chosen to ridicule, he picked Lewis, a revered leader from the civil rights movement who remains an outspoken hero from my era, the 1960s. History will have a huge platform for Lewis in the future.
I stand with all my freedom-and democracy-loving brothers and sisters, black and white, and every shade in between, to say with one voice, “We are here to stay,” and to remain steadfast in our faith in mankind, to fight the good fight, and know that to return to a beautiful democracy of truth and justice for all, we must believe that “we shall overcome.”
The Rev. Joseph S. Lewandowski (ret.)
Washington