The world Bobby Kennedy hoped for isn't here yet - we need to try harder
From a Guardian article by Jason Clare, Australian Labor Party Member for the Sydney seat of Blaxland in the Federal Parliament. And one of the best of the younger politicians coming up through Labor.
"Most politicians have a political hero. Someone they look up to. Someone they wish they were half as good as.
Mine died 50 years ago this week. Murdered in a kitchen in a Californian hotel."
(snip)
"When his brother died, Bobby could have crawled up in a ball, never to be seen again. But he didn’t do that. Instead he used his fame and his name to shine a light on the darkest parts of America. On poverty and prejudice. On children dying of hunger in the richest country in the world. On the plight of migrant farm workers who picked but didn’t share in the national bounty and on what he called “a national disgrace” – the desperate deprivation endured by Native Americans.
"At a time when America was tearing itself apart over a war it was losing in Vietnam and black and white Americans were fighting in the streets at home, Bobby Kennedy also tried to bring people together. If you haven’t seen it, watch the speech he made in Indianapolis on the night Martin Luther King died. No other white man could have made that speech. That night, fires burned in more than 60 cities across America, but Indianapolis was quiet."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/05/the-world-bobby-kennedy-hoped-for-isnt-here-yet-we-need-to-try-harder
I don't wish that Bobby would rest in peace - I wish that his unquiet soul would rouse others to follow where he led.
