The Fierce Urgency of Prophetic Hope

  ©Wendell Griffen, 2024 Little Rock, Arkansas U.S. President Joe Biden made history and fired a shot that may change the world when he decided to end his re-election effort and pledged his support for Vice President Kamala Harris to become the Democratic nominee for President during the 2024 election season. Biden’s decision to end his re-election effort was difficult and heroic. He has worked since 1987 to be elected President. His 2020 presidential campaign succeeded despite the difficulties caused by the Covid pandemic, the forced seclusion Biden and his supporters had to endure, and despite the many lies told by then President/now former President Donald Trump about everything ranging from the Covid 19 pandemic to civil rights for women, people of color, people living with disabling conditions, workers, immigrants, seniors, and anyone else. Whatever flaws Biden may have, his decision to end his re-election campaign and minutes later pledge his wholehearted support fo...

  ©Wendell Griffen, 2024 Little Rock, Arkansas   The Democratic and Republican parties have served up two poor choices to American voters as the 2024 presidential election approaches. They are not similarly poor. They are not equally poor. But they are, unmistakably, poor choices. President Joe Biden wants to serve another term. His tenure in office has produced some positive results, without question. But even his staunch supporters recognize that Biden’s memory issues are not to be sneezed at. Despite his reluctance to admit it, Biden is impaired by declining health. Biden’s June 27 debate performance on CNN against former President Donald Trump was abysmal. Try as he might (and does), Biden cannot “un-ring” the bell that his poor debate performance sounded. Calling Vice President Kamala Harris “Vice President Trump” and calling Ukrainian President Zelensky “Putin” during a recent NATO summit certainly didn’t help his image, at home or globally. Donald Trump’s is...

  ©Wendell Griffen 2024 Little Rock, Arkansas     The United States appears to be staggering towards fascism. The Supreme Court of the United States marked the beginning of the month and pushed the nation closer to fascist rule by its July 1 decision in Donald Trump v. United States . By a 6-3 margin, SCOTUS declared that the President of the United States is absolutely immune from criminal prosecution for unlawful conduct whenever he or she engages in “core constitutional duties” and is presumably immune from criminal prosecution for unlawful conduct while engaging in other “official duties.” Less than two weeks later, on July 13, a gunman fired several rounds from an AR-15 assault rifle during a Donald Trump campaign rally in Pennsylvania. Trump was slightly wounded. Another person was struck and killed by one of the bullets. A third person was injured. Many others were frightened. The alleged gunman was eventually killed. Perhaps it is coincidence that the ...