The Fierce Urgency of Prophetic Hope

  ©Wendell Griffen, 2024 On September 20, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now reported that the Uncommitted Movement has declared it will not endorse Kamala Harris, that it is vehemently opposed to the candidacy of Donald Trump, and that it will not endorse any third-party candidate in the U.S. presidential election contest. Here is a link to that report, and Goodman’s interview with Lexis Zeidan, a co-founder of the Uncommitted National Movement. https://www.democracynow.org/2024/9/20/lexis_zeidan_uncommitted_national_movement_2024 . The Uncommitted Movement’s stance makes a point that bears remembering. Kamala Harris will have only herself to blame if she does not win in Michigan, Arizona, and Wisconsin, battleground states whose electoral college votes are crucial for any presidential to win to reach 270 votes. I made that point in an August 23 blog post after Harris spurned pleas from Palestinian delegates who asked to speak during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

  ©Wendell Griffen, 2024   COMEUPPANCE (noun): a punishment or fate that someone deserves: “he got his comeuppance.” Synonyms: due, retribution, requital, recompense, just deserts, deserved fate, due reward, just punishment, castigation, wrath, chastisement. Beginning shortly after 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on September 10, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris gave former U.S. President Donald Trump what one of my Arkansas lawyer friends would call “a stand-up ass whipping.” People saw it happen live, across the United States and throughout the world.   Harris deployed her skills and discipline as a seasoned prosecutor to cut through Trump’s façade and expose his most unpleasant characteristics. Dishonesty. Bigotry. Cultural and political incompetence. Emotional immaturity. Vicious idiocy. Sociopathy. Mental clumsiness and laziness. By the time their 90 minute “debate” ended, Donald Trump’s posture was slumped. He had y