Isn’t it about time “We all get along?”,  used to admonish us Rodney King in LA only 12 years ago.

I am reflecting on these legends, or the recent past, and I have no choice but to connect to the most removed legends from our past, namely the inspired or enlightened moments. When the 13 colonies on our East Coast — riding on the shoulders of seven enlightened men, abided by that inspiration drafted by Mr. Thomas Jefferson — The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America — signed by 13 men who we call today “The Founding Fathers.”

I am, of course, not Mr. Lincoln, much less Mr. Jefferson, much less any paperback book writer. Just truly yours, humble servant, news writer, editor, founder, editor in chief and CEO of AL Día, Mr. H. Guaracao.

I can’t help but evoke these legends from our recent and distant past. They give me insight individually and now collectively to those of you who care to read this column to say, without hesitation, that Rodney King individually- these lines-was totally right.

Furthermore, the same founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, or John Jay, who said for the ages: “Give me liberty or give me death.” They were totally right when they decided that “united or die,” was best.

That meant either, we lose the war against those who hate or win the battle against them, with those who choose to love.

Wasn’t it Him, the One, who said to the disciple Peter, The Rock, The Strong: “Are you strong enough to love, Peter?”

In other words, the act of love is an act of courage, not one of weakness.

One somehow glimpses its truism. Caring to love demands courage. To hate and to spew hatred is as easy as throwing up after a long night of drinking or drugs, or drinking plus words.

During a recent visit to Boston, while I was attending my daughter’s graduation, I heard from a driver this age-old wisdom:

“Sir, the man who hates is a nobody. He’s nobody. He needs to hate to feel that he’s somebody.”

So, what I’m telling you is that you shouldn’t mind those who hate because they will offset themselves without you touching them.

In other words, hatred is self-destructive.

So it is entirely up to you.

The choices are down to love versus death, love versus hate, to do versus undo.

What is it that we should do today?

The choices are pretty clear after reflecting on these simple Stone-Age sentences.

We all choose victory, which is in peace.

Peace and victory are what comes from the fact that we’re human beings and as such we can “all get along,” if we so choose.

¡GRACIAS!