My hope for VP Kamala Harris in her speech at the Chicago Convention

I pray Kamala will bring the strength and integrity of Mahatma Gandhi to each word she speaks. I want her to have Bob Marley’s way with her words “Get up and stand up for rights” and her call for one love for all of us. I want her to have the smile and confidence of JFK and the courage of LBJ regarding human rights at home and abroad.

I want her to lift the people in the audience and on the screen with a voice Dr. Martin L. King ,Jr. I want people to feel the great kindness that John Lewis brought to anything and everything he did. I want Kamala to address the middle of our country that is hurting and at the same time reassure the poor that she will bring them into a better light and purer possibility of a good life. Speak clearly of the good and wonderful things Joe Biden did for this nation as Senator and President.

I want to see a dance of democracy that terrifies the likes of Putin and his ilk that the USA is on the rise. I want her to close the way President Obama spoke like a rolling thunder on the move to heaven.

Please God, let us Americans do what you want us to do building on the broad shoulders of those who came before us.