We didn't listen.
We ignored King's warning about the triple evils of poverty, racism and militarism, and look where it's gotten us: mounting national debt, impoverished communities, racial unrest, endless wars abroad and a military industrial complex that has turned its greedy sights on America.
We can no longer afford to ignore the warnings about where this is all leading.
The clock is ticking us down to doomsday.
Remember that dystopian Pentagon training video being used to prepare armed forces to solve future domestic political and social problems? It's only five minutes long, but the military training video says a lot about the government's mindset, the way its views the citizenry, and the so-called "problems" that the military must be prepared to address in the near future, which include criminal networks, illicit economies, decentralized syndicates of crime, substandard infrastructure, religious and ethnic tensions, impoverishment, economic inequality, protesters, slums, open landfills, over-burdened sewers, and a "growing mass of unemployed."
The Pentagon is anticipating that all hell will break loose by 2030. That's only 12 short years away.
We can no longer afford to pretend that we are just playing a game. The stakes are too high. In this particular game, winners take everything, and losers lose their lives.
This is life in the American people state and it is increasingly becoming desperate, dangerous and heart-breaking for everyone who doesn't belong to the elite class of corporate/government operatives that are really in charge.
We're all in this together.
It doesn't matter what your politics are, where you worship, whom you love, where you live, how much money you make, what language you speak, what color your skin is, whether you're a high school dropout or a college graduate, what kind of car you drive, or any other "differences" that are used to divide us into opposing factions: what unites us is that we're all traveling this road together.
Right now, we're so focused on what divides us that we can't see the danger looming ahead.
While Congress is debating whether the president is racist for referring to African nations as "shithole countries," no one is talking about the racist government policies that will ensure that "one of every four African American males born this decade can expect to go to prison in his lifetime."
Take the criminal justice system, for example -- one of the most racist institutions around. It is a fact that crime happens. It happens whether you're white, black, brown or some shade in between. However, while white Americans make up 76% of the population, African Americans and people of color are the ones who are disproportionately being singled out for police stops, searches, use of force during arrests, prison terms for drugs, and longer jail terms.
America is a racist nation, but the racists are on the government payroll.
While the media swarms all over accusations of sexual misconduct against prominent men in Hollywood, few are addressing the devastating scope of sexual misconduct within the nation's police forces. According to Newsweek, "At the national level, 990 officers had their licenses revoked between 2009 and 2014 because of rape, sodomy or other sexual misconduct, an Associated Press investigation found. Some of the victims had just been victims of a crime. One-third were juveniles." That doesn't include the numbers that go unreported because the victims were scared to speak out.
America is a nation of sexual predators, but the predators are pulling government salaries.
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