August 28, 2010 11:41 AM
Lest We Forget - August 28, 1963 - Martin Luther King
Dr. Martin Luther King at the Mall in Washington 1963 - the pivotal moment
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Probably one of the most referenced speeches in history, Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his "I Have A Dream" speech to a crowd of civil rights marchers estimated at over 200,000, assembled at the Washington Mall, August 28, 1963.
In light of how Dr. King's words have been distorted, taken out of context and abused in recent times, I thought it would be appropriate to run this speech in its entirety today as a reminder of how just powerful and universal his message was, and still is today.
Things you just don't want to forget.
Cool speech about war he made at the end of his life. He started really speaking out about war and terrorism and was effectively taking on the issue of poverty. I wish more people were able to take up that mantle or whatever you call it and proceed effectively. We need more people.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wML2V6crNc0
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
We had better learn that a jury in Memphis found that there was a conspiracy to kill MLK Jr that involved local, state, and federal officials.
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/MLKconExp...
Also see attorney William Peppers book An Act of State: The Execution of MLK Jr
Truth. There comes a time when we must speak it. Also. If you don't stand up for the things you believe in you have to question if you actually believe in them. Etc. Thanks for posting and pushing for justice for this great man.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
and justice for the Kennedy family, Malcom X, Oklahoma City victims, Koresh and the families, Weaver, 3000+ in the towers, the victims of the first bombing WTC, the 58000 soldiers in Vietnam, the 3 million vietnamese, the 2+ million Iraqis, and the millions more from our sponsorship and funding of totalitarian governments across the world.
and more than I listed...
...by any comparison to MLK.
Another embarrassing day in American history.
Co-opting a message of inclusion and cooperation to one of polarization.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
1963 is a year I will never forget. JUNE-graduated high school- first job- met the man I married- AUGUST-MLK speach -NOVEMBER-JFK It was a very up and down year for me. Now beck has taken some of that away from me. HE IS NO MLK AND I RESENT HIM USING TODAY FOR HIS EGO.
Sadly, I was no replacement for either of the two men gunned down that year.
Though not much of a consolation, I'm sure I have more character than beck does.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Most people have more character than that bunch of hypocritical repugs. By the way you are a very good replacement for those 2 men, you have a lot of character.
I'd settle for just replacing beck, say, with my dog. She's smart, doesn't have a drug problem, and doesn't want to f*ck sarah palin.
As to replacements for the slain men, I'm hoping for a younger progressive person(s) to step up and cut through the BS that seems to thwart almost all these days. Hopefully he/she will come before I'm gone.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Beck dishonoured a great man and an historic day, today.
far left loon >.<
The stuff that sustained Gandhi and Martin Luther King, and gave them the kind of calm deliberate guts we are not seeing today.
We're a bunch of lazy and overfed clowns these days totally lacking in spiritual fortitude and commitment.
is greed, materialism, facebook and twitter.
Their top four stories are Beck, number five (and five only) is MLK rally. He has his own show and own promotion 5 days a week on FOX were he gets to spew his hate. CNN really doesn't need to be helping him. Even MSNBC has it as their top story.
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"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Oh how can we forget this great womanizer!! Thanks to the FBI we all know that this son of a bitch was fucking any black or white **** he could! What a great guy! What a hero!
Oh and he also cheated on his dissertation for his doctorate, but it was not revoked because it was discovered when he was already assassinated. They just let him keep the bullshit title. King lifted sentences, phrases and entire paragraphs from texts like Paul Ramsey's 'Basic Christian Ethics'. Whole chunks of MLK's doctoral thesis were copied from the thesis of another student, and from the works of eminent theologians. Also it is well known that his early graduate and even undergraduate student papers were filched, and that King's plagiarism extended into his later career, and the works he wrote after he became famous.
And this is a man that blacks celebrate today!! WOW!
beck wants to be like him. He said he wasn't worthy of standing on the upper level as Dr King did, which is why, he claimed, he stood at the foot of the stairs. Sounds to me like you are calling out your big hero, Glenn Beck. And making Beck out to be a fool and a liar.
"As Martin Luther King said ... ": Beck's litany of self-aggrandizing claims
Did you know J Edgar Hoover the famous closeted cross-dressing self-loathing queer and head of the FBI hated the guy and could have had any evidence manufactured about him? That he illegally wiretapped King and others for decades?
Sources please, and not some right wing site either. You know, I'll just bet you hate having to share toilets, drinking fountains, liunch counters and the front of the bus with black folk, hater.
BTW, where are your sources for you being at Beckerheadlosersfest today? Proof. I believe you are a liar.
me-oww!
that King was a registered Repub .
You shouldn't be put off by the fact that MLK was a registered Republican. So was Abraham Lincoln.
Many blacks stayed loyal to the party because in the south, many racist governors, legislators and law enforcement officials were Democrats of the "Dixiecrat" era, fighting the changes that started after Harry Truman desegregated the military.
Traditionally, after the Civil War, many southern whites became Democrats as a revolt against the conquering Union forces, and even 100 years later, John Kennedy was faced with the dilemma of having to use Federal troops to enforce desegregation of Southern schools against states with white, Democratic officials. The Republicans by the 1950's had embraced big business and no longer needed the African American vote and so abandoned the progress Lincoln had started resolving the racial divide. And the Democratic party as a whole realized after the New Deal their future involved recruting working-class people which included African Americans that were a large part of that group.
Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years
Even in 1963, when I was 14, my parents and I living in New York State, were appalled at the violence directed against African Americans. The "n"-word was never allowed in our house, and although racism in the North was more subtle it still existed.
Any racism I may have harbored within me was shattered years later in Vietnam when I saw better men than I was, who happened to be black in color, get wounded, killed and permanently scarred defending a nation that continued to treat them as second-class citizens when they returned home.
Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years
beck wants to be like him. He said he wasn't worthy of standing on the upper level as Dr King did, which is why, he claimed, he stood at the foot of the stairs. Sounds to me like you are calling out your big hero, Glenn Beck. And making Beck out to be a fool and a liar.
"As Martin Luther King said ... ": Beck's litany of self-aggrandizing claims
Did you know J Edgar Hoover the famous closeted cross-dressing self-loathing queer and head of the FBI hated the guy and could have had any evidence manufactured about him? That he illegally wiretapped King and others for decades?
Sources please, and not some right wing site either. You know, I'll just bet you hate having to share toilets, drinking fountains, liunch counters and the front of the bus with black folk, hater.
BTW, where are your sources for you being at Beckerheadlosersfest today? Proof. I believe you are a liar.
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