1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,400 Speaker 1: So important on this April fourth to remember Senator Robert 2 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:08,760 Speaker 1: Kennedy and to remember the doctor Martin Luther King. What 3 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: they said at the edge of the hour of their deaths. 4 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:17,840 Speaker 1: They died within a season of each other, fighting for freedom, 5 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 1: fighting for the cause of justice, which is what makes 6 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 1: them great Americans. American people have a choice. There are 7 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:30,520 Speaker 1: two political parties in America, and one has become a 8 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:36,839 Speaker 1: menace towards our freedoms, towards our democracy, towards our liberty. 9 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 1: There is time for enthusiasm to increase in the opposition 10 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:50,320 Speaker 1: to Donald Trump, but it's not necessary. What's necessary is 11 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 1: an action, and the action is a vote. It's April fourth, 12 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:58,960 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. There are two hundred and fourteen days 13 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 1: remaining until the presidential election, which will decide America's destiny. 14 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:10,440 Speaker 1: This is the morning. April fourth is a significant anniversary 15 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 1: in the history of the United States. It is the 16 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 1: day that Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 17 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 1: one day after delivering one of the most important, optimistic 18 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 1: and prophetic speeches in American history. Looking back at the 19 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 1: plain text of the words, it's clear that Martin Luther 20 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 1: King understood that death was at hand. He saw it coming. 21 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:41,400 Speaker 1: It was a remarkable address from a thirty nine year 22 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: old man thrust into national prominence as the leader of 23 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 1: an urgent and great moral cause. When the Civil War 24 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 1: ended in eighteen sixty five, Abraham Lincoln was killed. James Garfield, 25 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 1: who famously talked of the fact that the Republican Party 26 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 1: and the cause would never betray black Americans, was assassinated. 27 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: Every time there was progress, there were setbacks. But because 28 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 1: in part of the valor of the Tuskegee Airmen in 29 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: the Second World War, men like Benjamin O'Davis, men like 30 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:31,920 Speaker 1: Daniel in Away, Harry Truman desegregated the armed forces. In 31 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 1: nineteen forty seven, baseball was desegregated, and a woman named 32 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:46,520 Speaker 1: Rosa Parks, who was an activist, enraged and tired over 33 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: the murder of m Ma Attil, refused to give up 34 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:53,960 Speaker 1: her seat on a bus. She had had enough, she 35 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 1: said no. It was an act of defiance that changed 36 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 1: the world and introduced the American people to a young minister, 37 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:09,359 Speaker 1: A brilliant man from Atlanta, Georgia, doctor Martin Luther King, 38 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 1: by nineteen sixty eight was world famous. He was a 39 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 1: recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, a moral giant of 40 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: unequal standing, somebody who the American people understood was a 41 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 1: man of conviction. And by nineteen sixty eight, this moral giant, 42 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:33,800 Speaker 1: this controversial man, had come to support a strike of 43 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 1: sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, when he took to the 44 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 1: stage and delivered one of the greatest addresses in all 45 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 1: of American history. Where he within it, he lays out 46 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 1: the promise that lies ahead. The speech is built and 47 00:03:52,760 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 1: constructed on a series of journeys that connect together. The King, 48 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 1: when he takes to the stage, imagines the Lord coming 49 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 1: to him and saying, Martin, let me take you on 50 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 1: a journey to anywhere you wish to go. And Martin 51 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 1: Luther King says to the Lord, takes him up on 52 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 1: his offer, and they go to ancient Egypt. They go 53 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:22,720 Speaker 1: to the places where as King says, he could see 54 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 1: God's people liberated from their oppression of Pharaoh's hand, and 55 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:32,440 Speaker 1: Martin Luther King talks about the journey that continues. He 56 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:38,480 Speaker 1: goes to Rome, into ancient Greece, but he continues forward, 57 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:41,920 Speaker 1: always onward. He explained that though he wanted to see 58 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 1: those things, if he were to be born in any 59 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 1: other period, to stay there, to live there, that he 60 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:52,919 Speaker 1: would not be part of the great events of his time. 61 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:57,279 Speaker 1: He said, he wouldn't be there in Selma, he wouldn't 62 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 1: be there in Montgomery, he wouldn't be there in Birmingham. 63 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:04,599 Speaker 1: What Martin Luther King is saying is that it was 64 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:09,279 Speaker 1: a privilege to be in the fight, to be in 65 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:14,040 Speaker 1: the center of the action in a great cause, and 66 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 1: that cause, of course, with human freedom. Doctor King looks 67 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 1: out on the crowd and he says that longevity has 68 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 1: its purpose. He wants to live a long life like 69 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:31,840 Speaker 1: everyone else. He's a young man with a family. He 70 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 1: talks about it. He says he wants to see his 71 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 1: kids grow old. He wants to grow old. Longevity has 72 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: its purpose. But he says none of that matters now 73 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:47,279 Speaker 1: because he has been to the mountaintop, and he tells 74 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 1: us what he sees from that mountaintop. What he sees 75 00:05:52,839 --> 00:06:00,599 Speaker 1: over it is the just society, a place where the 76 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 1: founder's vision, our ideals and ideas have been fulfilled, where 77 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 1: we truly are the city upon a hill. Martin Luther 78 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:18,800 Speaker 1: King's vision tells us we will reach that destination. In fact, 79 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 1: that he knows it because he has seen it, and 80 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 1: it's with calm and determination he describes it on the 81 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 1: edge of his assassination. Later, Senator Robert Kennedy will be 82 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 1: in Indianapolis about to speak to a crowd made up 83 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 1: of mostly black people, mostly poor black people. Could be 84 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:49,360 Speaker 1: standing in the back of a pickup truck, and immediately 85 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 1: before he goes on, you can hear him being told 86 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 1: of the news on a hot mic. The Reverend Martin 87 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:07,200 Speaker 1: Luther King is dead. Now. All across America cities there 88 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:13,520 Speaker 1: will be riots and violence. The cities will burn, all 89 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 1: except for one, Indianapolis, where Robert Kennedy speaks. It's funny 90 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 1: we talk about the polls. There's new ones out today, 91 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 1: polls that suggest that there's a lot more enthusiasm among 92 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 1: MEGA voters than there is amongst Democratic voters, that the Republicans, 93 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 1: the MAGA forces have the enthusiasm edge. The polls say 94 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 1: a lot of things. We live in a time where 95 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 1: there are thousands of points of data on each American voter. 96 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:58,160 Speaker 1: Nobody ever says anything without testing it and retesting it 97 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:03,160 Speaker 1: focus group after focus, through poll after pol stripping everything 98 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 1: of meaning and conviction. Senator Robert Kennedy didn't have that 99 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 1: opportunity on April fourth, nineteen sixty eight. He had to 100 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 1: speak to a crowd, and he did so spontaneously. He 101 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:23,320 Speaker 1: didn't do it with the helping hand of the polster, 102 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:27,240 Speaker 1: the guiding hand of the message guru. He spoke from 103 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:30,440 Speaker 1: the heart as a political leader. And what did he 104 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:37,840 Speaker 1: talk about? Talked about universal truths, talked about love to 105 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 1: this poor black crowd in Indianapolis. He talked intimately about 106 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 1: the loss of his brother, also to violence, also at 107 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:54,200 Speaker 1: the hand of a white man. He quoted the Greek 108 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 1: poet Eschylus. What Robert Kennedy talked about that night is 109 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:05,320 Speaker 1: eternally important in the United States. These two speeches, won 110 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 1: by a black American giant, another by a white man, 111 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:15,440 Speaker 1: both American martyrs in the same year of nineteen sixty eight, 112 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:22,400 Speaker 1: are forever connected together. It's important to remember them, to 113 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:28,760 Speaker 1: watch them, not just their clips, but the entire speeches 114 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:33,439 Speaker 1: in their entirety, to hear the words of wisdom, of restraint, 115 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:43,880 Speaker 1: of forgiveness, forgiveness. What Donald Trump is calling for the 116 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 1: politics of revenge, the politics of retribution, the politics where 117 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 1: there will be vast prison camps for deportations of migrants 118 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 1: who will be herded into them like animals. The politics 119 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:02,679 Speaker 1: that says, if you disagree with me, then you'll be 120 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 1: punished by the use of the irs, or maybe even 121 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:15,240 Speaker 1: a prison sentence. The American people may not feel enthusiasm 122 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:23,280 Speaker 1: in this moment to reject this promise of vengeance and retribution, 123 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:30,880 Speaker 1: these intimations for political violence, which are everywhere and growing 124 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 1: and growing more menacing. The American people have a choice, 125 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 1: and they don't have to be enthusiastic to make it. 126 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:48,200 Speaker 1: They just have to make it. And the choice is clear. 127 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:54,440 Speaker 1: There are two political parties in America, and one has 128 00:10:54,520 --> 00:11:00,880 Speaker 1: become a menace towards our freedoms, towards our democracy, towards 129 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:09,320 Speaker 1: our liberty. That party has been taken over by Donald Trump, 130 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:14,959 Speaker 1: by his board of maga fanatics that are but a 131 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:18,839 Speaker 1: fraction of the whole of our country, yet are large 132 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:23,120 Speaker 1: enough in form and function to control one of the 133 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 1: two political parties and thus the highway by which you 134 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:33,200 Speaker 1: take political power. They stand at the edge of doing 135 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:38,079 Speaker 1: it in the third decade of the twenty first century, 136 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 1: and it's time for young people and old people, all 137 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 1: people who care about the future, about the dignity of 138 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:58,240 Speaker 1: people to stand together in a common cause against this 139 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:02,720 Speaker 1: threat to all of us before it is too late. 140 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:11,199 Speaker 1: There is time for enthusiasm to increase in the opposition 141 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:18,480 Speaker 1: to Donald Trump, but it's not necessary. What's necessary is 142 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:23,960 Speaker 1: an action, and the action is a vote. It's one 143 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 1: action that's taken on one day where all you have 144 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:39,079 Speaker 1: to do is say no, enough, stop it, because after 145 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 1: that we can start talking about all of the things 146 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:46,800 Speaker 1: that can be done to start walking together into a 147 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:51,680 Speaker 1: better future as a nation, towards that valley of justice 148 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 1: that doctor King saw from the mountaintop. But until then, 149 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 1: we must join together, so we don't go into the 150 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:08,520 Speaker 1: abyss together. There are stars that hang in the sky 151 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:15,040 Speaker 1: that are like guides. The speeches, the great words from 152 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:23,400 Speaker 1: our greatest figures are like those guides, those north stars 153 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:31,320 Speaker 1: polarises on a dark night. That's why it's so important 154 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:35,719 Speaker 1: on this April fourth to remember Senator Robert Kennedy and 155 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 1: to remember the doctor Martin Luther King. What they said 156 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 1: at the edge of the hour of their deaths. What 157 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:51,200 Speaker 1: made them great, what made them the finest of patriots, 158 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:55,320 Speaker 1: Why they were mourned, why they were remembered, and why 159 00:13:55,400 --> 00:14:03,000 Speaker 1: we honor their legacies because they were of strength, carved 160 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 1: from the granite of love that rejected hate in nationalism 161 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:15,480 Speaker 1: and a triumphalism that placed one human being on top 162 00:14:15,559 --> 00:14:20,600 Speaker 1: of another, that subjugated one person under the claims that 163 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:29,200 Speaker 1: another was superior. Somehow, these two great men made history together, 164 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:37,400 Speaker 1: and they died within a season of each other, fighting 165 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:43,720 Speaker 1: for freedom, fighting for the cause of justice, which is 166 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:49,000 Speaker 1: what makes them great Americans, and that legacy should never 167 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:54,160 Speaker 1: be repudiated and must not be and cannot be. The 168 00:14:54,280 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 1: choices President Biden versus this man, the fascist Donald Trump. 169 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 1: That's the choice. It is an easy one because only 170 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 1: one of these men supports the American way of life. 171 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:17,400 Speaker 1: The other will wreck it, and he has already desecrated it. 172 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 1: For President, the choice is clear, Joe Biden, What will 173 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:31,160 Speaker 1: you do to get involved? There are two hundred and 174 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:35,960 Speaker 1: fourteen days left. Thank you for listening to my political commentary. 175 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:40,040 Speaker 1: If you like what you heard today, please also consider 176 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 1: subscribing to The Warning Daily newsletter on substack