SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL, WE OWE YOU OUR LIVES!
Yes, I mean every word of the title of this post. I always knew
his name. I even slightly recall that he was considered a great man. And I
slightly recalled learning about him in high school. However, at this age, I
could not exactly recall the details of why I should give him all praise and
honor.
Until tonight after seeing the movie, The DARKEST HOUR, I had
almost forgotten the man who saved the world from Hitler. We, the free people
in the modern world in 2018, owe Winston Churchill the biggest debt of
gratitude no man, woman or child can ever ignore or deny. For if Winston
Churchill had not listened to his heart, mind, and British citizenry, then we
would not exist under the global banner of democracy and freedom for all.
It was not America who actually stood up to Adolph Hitler. Never
forget that an American named Jesse Owens had to run in front of Adolph Hitler
during the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Hitler was actually allowed to host the
Olympic Games by the world community. Even with his unspeakable beliefs and
crimes against humanity, never forget that Hitler was respected by the world
and permitted to host the Olympics.
MOST world leaders had succumb to Hitler's power and beliefs.
Yes, even America had not tried to stop him. We, America, did not get involved
until we were bombed by the Japanese in 1942. A DECADE LATER.
It was WINSTON CHURCHILL, the Prime Minister of Great Britain,
who said, "NO" on a continuous basis to the communist dictator. If
Prime Minister Churchill had negotiated and accepted the possible terms of
having a swastika-symbol Nazi flag flying over Buckingham Palace, then none of
us would likely be here today. Even try to imagine our nation's White House
with a Nazi flag. Can you? Do you truly understand this image could have been
our reality?? Without Winston Churchill, where do you think Black Americans
were going? What do you think Adolph Hitler would have done to us--Black
People?? And, we definitely would NOT be on the verge of celebrating the
birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
So before you start celebrating and forgetting, I encourage you
to see the movie and read the speeches of Sir Winston Churchill. WE MUST PAY
HOMAGE TO THIS GREAT HUMAN-BEING.
One of my favorite excerpts from his 1941 speech to the Joint
U.S. Congress is below:
"I should like to say first of all how much I have been
impressed and encouraged by the breadth of view and sense of proportion which I
have found in all quarters over here to which I have had access. Anyone who did
not understand the size and solidarity of the foundations of the United States,
might easily have expected to find an excited, disturbed, self-cantered
atmosphere, with all minds fixed upon the novel, startling, and painful
episodes of sudden war as they hit America. After all, the United States have
been attacked and set upon by three most powerfully armed dictator states, the
greatest military power in Europe, the greatest military power in Asia-Japan,
Germany and Italy have all declared and are making war upon you, and the
quarrel is opened which can only end in their overthrow or yours.
But here in Washington in these memorable days I have found an
Olympian fortitude which, far from being based upon complacency, is only the
mask of an inflexible purpose and the proof of a sure, well-grounded confidence
in the final outcome. We in Britain had the same feeling in our darkest days.
We too were sure that in the end all would be well.
You do not, I am certain, underrate the severity of the ordeal
to which you and we have still to be subjected. The forces ranged against us
are enormous. They are bitter, they are ruthless. The wicked men and their
factions, who have launched their peoples on the path of war and conquest, know
that they will be called to terrible account if they cannot beat down by force
of arms the peoples they have assailed. They will stop at nothing. They have a
vast accumulation of war weapons of all kinds. They have highly trained and
disciplined armies, navies and air services. They have plans and designs which
have long been contrived and matured. They will stop at nothing that violence
or treachery can suggest."
In other words, if Adolph
Hitler had won, there most certainly might not have been a you, me or Facebook.
Think about it, especially during BLACK HISTORY MONTH.
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