Reply #17: JFK was false hope after Eleanor's Roosevelts' legacy died. [View All]

[cyclezealot]

We all must live through the cylces of our own lives..When growing up the aspirations of the likes of Sojouner Truth, Dorothy Day, or DuBois are forgotten for the drives of positive forces in each generation...The saint of our era, I consider to be Eleanor Roosevelt..Eleanor made way to the inspiration of Joe McCarthy..
We had thought the work of the Freedom Riders, Martin Luther King, or Robert Kennedy would bring on a new age..Only to see that new age in shatters by the likes of Attorney Generals John Mitchell or John Ashcroft.
The cycles of repression are spun throughout American history from Bacon's Rebellion, to the Haymarket Riot,to the Ludlow Massacre, to the Triangle Fire, to the Palmer raids..,McCarthy witch hunts.
Sojourner Truth's and Eleanor Roosevelts and Granny D's come along.But the struggle seems uphill.
THose living in innocence have not yet read of our history.
To keep our sanity we must find our heros...
Does not the AFL-CIO maintain a museum to the legacy of real American heros...Labor is really only a part of that legacy.....
We need maintain a museum dedicated to the hero figures of all our struggles,- labor, civil rights, civil liberties, women's rights. Is there such a place where we can learn of struggles of our freedom fighters from Nathaniel Bacon, to Frederick Douglas,Soujouner Truth, to Paul Wellstone..All housed under one roof...
Keep hope alive.