Politics and Culture - American Profiles In Radical Independence

"The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; It is this. "

~ Chinua Achebe (Nigerean Author)

"Political parties exist to secure responsible government and to execute the will of the people. From these great tasks both of the old parties have turned aside. Instead of instruments to promote the general welfare they have become the tools of corrupt interests, which use them impartially to serve their selfish purposes. Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics, is the first task of the statesmanship of the day."

~Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States

As I sit here on the eve of my fourth major milestone in the lifetime known simply as the life of Khalfani Akil King, I am slammed in the face by realities of where my life has taken me and also the fears and hopes of what is to come on a personal and a national level through living life in the greatest nation in modern history

In a political "change" year it is the duty of every individual American of every age, sex, and gender to look within their hearts and minds to visualize the direction they would like our country to take over the next eight years.

"Some people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world."

"We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers."

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy."

~Martin Luther King Jr.