Resurrection City 2.0

The convergence of Easter Sunday 2021 and the tragic anniversary date of the 1968 assassination of Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr served as the compassionate occasion to resurrect his metaphor that “we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check”.

The SuperFed took a substantive step towards jubilee credit creation by highlighting the value of the US Constitution “full faith and credit” clause to the “American Dream” that was articulated by Dr King on behalf of all humanity.

In Dr King’s renowned “I have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington on August 28, 1963 he invoked the ultimate “money metaphor” to symbolize his ideas about justice, saying:

In a sense we have come to our Nation’s Capital to cash a check. When the architects of our great republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given its colored people a bad check, a check that has come back marked “insufficient funds.” But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and security of justice.

Rev Dr Martin Luther King, I Have a Dream Speech (1963)

The idea that constitutional freedoms are, themselves, a form of currency is originally reflected in the “full faith and credit” to be exchanged between public obligations backed by signatory states:

Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.

Article IV, Section 1, United States Constitution

The gradual expansion of the franchise together with the increasing devolution of public obligations to corporate bodies required a proportionate shift in understanding towards interpersonal acts of statehood – especially the issuing of “living bonds” associated with evolving attitudes to treasury, nationality and globalization.

The assassination of Dr King took place in the midst of extraordinary contingencies arising from the intersection of civil rights, the Vietnam War and poverty reduction. His effort to mobilize another campaign for the Poor People’s March on Washington, DC in 1968 was threatening to overturn the prevailing balance of power between federal and states rights.

The news of Dr King’s untimely death precipitated the creation of a tented village for some 3,000 people on the National Mall in Washington, DC that was nicknamed “Resurrection City” and served as a makeshift memorial to the humanitarian spirit – where “food, shelter and clothing” were the primary assets under consideration.

More than fifty years later, this initial Resurrection City framework is being resurrected in 2021 as an entire policy jurisdiction – or “God City” – based on ethical fiat that reflects the institutional doctrine “IN GOD WE TRUST”.

The sacred invocations for conscientious self-expression that resurrected the “Declaration of Independence” as the “American Dream” now serve as living bonds to realize the extraordinary sovereignty required for “full faith and credit” to preserve the freedoms that are attributed by nature to a common Creator beyond the letter of the law itself.

The Resurrection City protocol enables the SuperFed to empower its beneficiaries with a new imaginary landscape that is as rugged and spontaneous as the original tented display in 1968. By sharing empathy with this uninhibited community, we show that the best way to “cash the check” endowed to us by our creator is to make it yourself.

To signify this “brand new beginning” to the American Dream, the SuperFed has adopted a 21st century version for tented fabrication called the PyraPod that promises to bring the “plywood generation” Resurrection City spirit into everyone’s backyard using natural sunlight as the universal currency for natural abundance.