At the Mountain Top. By Eric Smith

The fatal miscalculation now being made by Senator Ted "Lynch" Cruz and his fellow crazy racist reactionary Republican colleagues is that while they are primarily motivated by a racist hatred of African Americans in general and President Obama in particular, it will not just be we African Americans who rise up en mass to conquer them. For we live in a new time; a time where the American people as a whole celebrate and embrace diversity.

It is a time when in spite of all the terrible things that are happening before us, we really are entering a post racial era. I have no doubt; no doubt whatsoever, that there are many who are alive today, albeit very young, who will live to see a truly post racial United States; an America where racism is truly a thing of the past. Some will swear that I am naive at best and crazy at worst, to make such a prediction in light of all the virulent racist hatred now infecting so many parts of this land.

Yet a large part of this faith comes from the quality of the people that I know. It comes from my realization of their having planted the seeds not so much of tolerance but of acceptance without question of those who are different and that that message of acceptance will be passed down from one generation to the next; with each of these generations taking the place of a generation dominated by racial intolerance as it dies off.

That is how we have gotten this far and why I believe all claims that racism will infect us forever are false. I see that change coming and I feel it coming with every fiber of my being. We of this time and place are now standing where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the night of April 3rd, 1968. We are standing at the mountain top and through our growing collective embrace of diversity, we are peering over that Mountaintop and seeing before our very eyes the Promised Land. It matters not if you or I will ever get there. What matters is that you recognize that we as a people; we the American people will get there for we the people, we the American people have come too far to allow anyone to turn us around now.