ROBERT F.KENNEDY-WHAT IF?

ROBERT F.KENNEDY-WHAT IF?Reading recently read about Juan Romero who was the one who held the hand of the dying Robert Kennedy in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel that awful night in June of 68.Juan discussed the lingering pain he carried through the years was sad.So much hope in Robert Kennedy was astounding to me.For me I was born in 1968,my mother died of cancer that same June.So I only learned of Sen.Kennedy through history,first through his brother John F.Kennedy's years.I became an admirer of both brothers.

I CAN GO ON about what if RFK lived,but it don't change anything.I do know the country was deeply wounded that night of June 4,1968 and in fact changed it forever.Americans became angry and threw away the idealism the Kennedy's had reminded us of.We became fixed on political power instead of working towards a society of public service,doing what we can for our country.We let loose of hate instead of encouraging and picking each other up to keep going.

WE STOPPED listening to each other,to love and respect our fellow men and women.If the 1960s taught us a clear lesson it was that assassinations,wars,riots and division is not the wave of the future.Yet our anger keeps us divided.What the early 60s taught us is that man will be what he is born to be-free and independent.Not a collective,independent.Independent in thinking and choosing one's own path in freedom and dignity.That we do what's hard not what's easy.

YES WE HAVE TO FIX immigration so dreams don't get shattered,we have to work together not on a simple policy,but with a map of continuing efforts to keep laws in order,our people safe and future Americans safe and justice assured for all.Political correctness does not solve,it divides.When you try to justify wrong doing,it's not assuring the American people and soon they start to distrust.

ROBERT KENNEDY on the night Dr.King was killed said we need to make an effort in this country.An effort such as to get along,an effort to make equality for all,an effort to strife for peace among us all,in our community's,our cities,our states,our nation.Not build up walls and call them sanctuary cities.That's not what Kennedy would propose and you know it.

 BUT IF WERE GOING TO ANSWER WHAT IF let us start with ourselves.What if we made an effort to reach out instead of yelling?What if we made an effort not to blame our troops for Vietnam and welcomed them home.What if we had taken Kennedy's message serious?That we are a selfless country,a compassionate country,which he ran on.What he believed we were.Would he still be alive today?And would we go into the 70s not with anger but hope.Had we taken the message serious despite the tragedies that took JFK,Dr.King,RFK we would of made an effort to work on that message so they would not have died in vain.

IN THE LAST I am sure 50yrs later some can claim progress,but I can quote RFK,"Progress is a nice word,but change is the motivator."We changed not for the good and it is why we are divided.This is not the change RFK spoke of.If we held onto the message and did more to make a ripple of hope better.We wouldn't be getting mad over lost elections.You would keep trying to do better.Not listening to hateful rhetoric but working on changing hearts to build a better society,building on the best hope for mankind.FREEDOM.

WHEN I THINK OF RFK and then think of America today.And I mean between Americans.We can do better.He would want us to be better than this.Thanks 4 listening.