The passing of Edward M. Kennedy closes a chapter in American History, just as the loss of President Lincoln closed the chapter on oppression of human beings.
The Kennedy Family dedicated themselves to bringing equity to the citizens of the USA that were without a champion.
Those that would dissent in the aspirations of the Kennedys never knew the 'reality of oppression.' Say it was their Irish heritage and the knowledge of oppression of the ethnicity both in Europe and American that brought them a resolve in life that would create 'an enemy' to politics as usual in Washington, DC.
It was a family committed to valuing the equality of all people as themselves that brought about a reality to the American Fabric that would rattle the status quo for decades and into decades in the future.
Ted Kennedy was the center of his family's stability and the epicenter to equality in DC.
He will be missed. He will be missed as his brothers before him and perhaps, just perhaps, more than they ever could be.
He was a vital figure on all levels of his life and there is a void today that needs to be filled by someone as dedicated to the principles that all 'men' were created equal. His sense of justice will live on and it is that conscience that was captured in a political party that now has a task to fill a void as vast as any vacuum of space.
Sympathies to his family and dearest friends. They suffer a loss today, but, not so great as the one of a champion lost to those in the country he loved.
His funeral service was a Roman Catholic Requiem High Mass.
..."We can still hear his voice (click here) bellowing through the Senate chamber, face reddened, fist pounding the podium, a veritable force of nature, in support of health care or workers’ rights or civil rights," President Obama said in his eulogy before 1,500 at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Mission Hill. "And yet, while his causes became deeply personal, his disagreements never did."...
It can easily be said, the Kennedy family saw to the rise of the African American's first Black President. They took up the fight where Lincoln had left off. No one can take that away from them. The legacy is obvious through the price they paid. America is grateful.
