At the beginning of each year in January, our attention is turned toward one of the world's martyrs, who gave himself wholely and died needlessly. The old year has passed and, within not too many hours, Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday will be history. In spite of the passing of time, we must continue to march forward, working to make this a better world for those who will follow in our footsteps. Would we be proud of our contributions toward making it better?

I reflect back to my meeting Dr. Martin Luther King's family, on his early arrival in Montgomery, through my sister-in-law, one of the oldest members of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. As my husband Bill and I were struggling to get people registered and have land ownership, we weathered the economic and social pressure, with no one to turn to. As God would suffer it, Rosa Parks refused to give her seat up on the bus, which caused people of color to realize they were living in bondage, in the country that boasted of being the land of the free, and the home of the brave.

A few months after the founding of the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference), we asked Dr. King to come to Selma, Alabama. His philosophy was in keeping with our teaching, of nearly 50,000 of Selma and Dallas County.

Dr. King's death left a lack of the type of leadership we needed. Then, with my husband's death, caused by the system's pressure and Dr. King's death and many others, I had a longing to return to the battlefield, to fight non-violently, to wake my people up and fight for that justice they had been deprived of, over 300 years.

As chance would have it, I married again, went to New York, met one of Lyndon LaRouche's leading associates, Dennis Speed, who spoke of his organization. He related the fact that the organization had a blueprint where they could irrigate the Sahara Desert in Africa, for agricultural purposes. I said to myself, Dr. King would certainly approve of that project. He then spoke of the drugs in New York City and how Mr. LaRouche and his organization were working to make a test case in a part of the city, showing that getting rid of drugs could be done. I again said to myself, I know Dr. King would join in such a battle, to save our youth from destroying themselves, while the source is not touched.

I attended one of the national conferences of the Schiller Institute and found that Lyndon LaRouche and the organization were doing the same thing as my husband and I and Dr. Martin Luther King were doing, on a much larger political scale, and that empty space, that yearning, to give the world the best that is in me, is now being fulfilled. Lyndon LaRouche has given the world a blueprint to save this country and the world from a Dark Age, into which we seem to be headed. And he has no fear working to implement the policies of the American System to keep this country from being destroyed.

In my mind's eye, I see on a national scale, as a metaphor, one of the greatest landmarks in the South, the Albert Hotel, in Selma, Alabama, for which all material came from Greece 100-plus years ago. Dr. King made an attempt to register and, of course, was refused. Three weeks later, the entire hotel was torn down, and the ground was leveled. Many of our citizens today speak of the destruction of their beautiful hotel, that had such a wonderful history.

Lyndon LaRouche's plan to save nations and the world, through the New Bretton Woods, is being implemented in other countries, while America is reenacting the Albert Hotel tragedy. Our country will never be any freer than its citizens.

Contact Mrs. Robinson:
amelia@schillerinstitute.org

Dr. King's birthday is January 15, and this year it is celebrated as a US National Holiday, "Martin Luther King, Jr. Day" on Monday, January 21.

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