You have a RIGHT to be angry about this one, Mr. President

[Ken Burch]

What the Court did today was evil. It's an attack not only on all you believe, but all that brought you to the office you now hold. It's about delegitimizing not only you presidency, but your life and our shared reality itself).

You have an obligation to look back AND forward now...you need to rage about this...you need to speak with all the anger, grief and fear of those whose lives and struggles were disrespected by this Klan Kourt today.

This is NO time to be even tempered.

This is the time for you to call for a Voting Rights Amendment, to make sure that nothing like the past can ever recur...and that all that Dr. King, Medgar Evers, and "thousands more whose names we'll never know", as Phil Ochs once sang, will not be lost forever in the mists of time.

You stand on the shoulders of giants, Mr. President. Now, you must BE a giant yourself.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Wow, my dear Ken Burch!

Your anger has made you eloquent.

I wish President Obama could hear you...

K&R

[rhett o rick]

2. It's time for the president to step forward and lead. nm

[KittyWampus]

3. Someone quoted Nelson Mandela when asked why he didn't get angry. He said-

"Someone asked him why he was not more angry. And his answer was, ‘If I thought it would be useful, I would be.’ ”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/opinion/sunday/dowd-patty-stonesifer-is-getting-her-boots-dirty-at-marthas-table.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

[Iliyah]

6. Yes and Mandela was jailed

for I believe 27 years. He was not angry when he got out. He was elected president against all odds.

Mandela is very ill, I read where his daughter said to her father President Obama is coming, and he smiled.

Against all odds. . . and now here we go again with voting rights.

[LongTomH]

5. Well said, Sir!

[Boomerproud]

7. There isn't one word I would disagree with or change in your OP

That wasn't a rant, it was a wake-up call. There are two presidents (JFK and LBJ) who are spinning in their graves tonight.

[Ken Burch]

9. Undoubtably, MLK and Bobby are joining them.

If there are earthquakes at Arlington National, Atlanta and the LBJ Ranch tonight, we'll know why.

[SunSeeker]

8. K & R