"Learning about the legacy of Martin Luther King, as a child, was something that was as normal for me as was learning about the other important things in life; the idea of how important it was to not use violence for the furtherance of one’s goal was not merely King’s message, it was the message , and yet, how much has that message been heeded? After forty years how much more is needed before that dream is realized?"
Of course, I'M the FOOL for expecting the WAR-PROMOTING MSM to CORRECTLY HONOR Dr. King.
"Many read from the sermons of Martin Luther King Jr., whose birthday the nation celebrates today.... It has been almost a half century since Birmingham became infamous for its violent oppression of African-Americans, searing into the national memory images of white police turning dogs and fire hoses on peaceful protesters. Amid this terror, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote in his famous "Letter From Birmingham Jail": "We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied to a single garment of destiny."
Look, I'm not looking to short the guy's civil rights accomplishment because they stand on their own; however, the MSM is MISSING the ANTIWAR MESSAGE!!!
"King and his presidents
THIS is a week to think of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr..... King led the movement that forced Americans to confront the hypocrisy of their past and at least pay lip service to the notion that all people deserve equal opportunity.
As the divisive, agenda-pushing MSM pays lip service to so many things -- and ignore Dr. King's ANTIWAR LEGACY!
"King by 1967 became one of the most dangerous leaders in America because he was growing politically and he had made some ideological transitioning beyond the Civil Rights movement and had come to recognize that the true struggle was international, which involved a struggle for human rights. Some of Dr. King's top advisors like Ralph Abernathy and Andrew Young advised King not to make this transition because it was a lot more political and expansive in ideology.
King grew to understand that inequality between wealth and labor (labor and the means of production created an antagonistic contradiction between the "haves and have nots") for this position he was called a socialist, as if that label represented something bad.
Dr. King would be in total opposition to the Zionist State of Israel who ended the year and started the New Year in 2009 killing innocent Palestinian men, women, and children on the Gaza Strip. What is taking place in Gaza is a criminal act and should be condemned by all civilized people of the earth. There are forty-one (41) Congressional Black Caucus Members (CBC) and there should have been a collective statement, a resolution of sought issued condemning Israel for this unlawful act of aggression against the Palestinian people.
King said injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. I have not heard the so-called black leaders nor the religious community stand-up and condemn what the Israeli military is doing in Gaza. Yet, many of them for the next two weeks will be putting on public programs honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and telling how they are followers of his philosophy. But King would not be sitting silent and watching the Palestinian people being slaughtered on the Gaza Strip and Gaza City go up in flames and not raise a voice of opposition. These are hypocrites and liars.
We in 2009 are faced with some of the same challenges that Dr. King faced over forty (40) years ago, the enemy today is more covert and sophisticated and has further lured black people to sleep with Barack Obama being elected as the president of the United States of America, as though this resolves the social divide and all of sudden racism does not exist and all of America’s race problems have been solved. --source--"
Okay, I'm still gving the Zionist MSM a chance to get it straight:
Although Ike did enforce Brown v. Board of Education. Btw, Zionist Jews are segregationists, too, so pot calling kettle.
King expected better from John F. Kennedy, but the president refused to give civil rights the priority it deserved for fear of alienating powerful Southern congressmen. "No president can be great, or even fit for office," King said in 1962, "if he attempts to accommodate to injustice to maintain his political balance."
Then they are ALL FAILURES -- including the new hire (and he ain't even started yet)! As for JFK, I'm sick of the WAR PAPERS disrespecting the guys' memory -- but then again, the fault is mine. I should not expect things like the truth from them.
King and his more militant allies seized control of the issue in 1963. Their protests against segregation in Birmingham, Ala., and the march in Washington moved President Kennedy to propose the bill that became the Civil Rights Act, prohibiting discrimination in public accommodations.
Oh, so NOW the NON-VIOLENT, PEACE-LOVING Dr. was a MILITANT!!!
(Blog author just shaking his head at the disrespectful spin)
Lyndon Johnson pushed that bill through Congress after Kennedy's assassination. Johnson, a fervent supporter of civil rights, formed an informal alliance with King on their next great cause.
Yeah, the RACIST LBJ was the REAL CIVIL RIGHTS HERO!! Egads, readers!
"We're not on our knees begging for the ballot. We are demanding the ballot," King proclaimed in 1965 as he launched a campaign to break the discriminatory policies that kept blacks from voting in Alabama. The Voting Rights Act sped through Congress, and for the first time since Reconstruction, blacks were able to register and vote throughout the South.
King told Johnson that, "It is so important to get Negroes registered to vote in large numbers. It would be this coalition of the Negro vote and the moderate white vote that would really make the new South." The President agreed with King then, but earlier he more frankly acknowledged to an aide: "I think we've just delivered the South to the Republican Party for a long time to come."
I guess he was a profit there.
King moved on to Chicago, where he failed to break the discriminatory housing policy sanctioned by then-Mayor Richard Daley. Johnson was no help here. King was assassinated in Memphis in April 1968. Obama was 6 years old....
Nothing about his ANTIWAR SPEECH at the NEW YORK CHURCH, huh?
The "greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government" speech.
What King had envisioned in the 1960s: a successful black-white political coalition....
Pffft! The MSM is BLIND!! While maybe technically true, he wasn't about left or right -- he was about LIFE!!!!
Obama said at the groundbreaking for the King memorial in Washington in 2006, "By dint of vision and determination, and most of all faith in the redeeming power of love . . . he finally inspired a nation to transform itself, and begin to live up to the meaning of its creed."
This from the CONTINUE the WARS, SUPPORT ISRAEL, and continue the LYING CHARADE of 'terrorists!"
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I knew Dr. Martin Luther King, Mr. President-elect, and YOU are NO MLK, sir!!!
"Obama sounds themes of hope at Lincoln Memorial" by Joseph Williams, Globe Staff | January 19, 2009
WASHINGTON - Two days before his historic inauguration, President-elect Barack Obama honored the nation's war dead and visited an esteemed black church yesterday before attending a star-studded celebration of his presidency at the Lincoln Memorial, a free event that drew hundreds of thousands and previewed the throngs expected tomorrow.
They should be honored; however, when does the militarism and war worship end?
The rollicking concert, titled "We Are One" and broadcast live nationwide, was intended to underscore Obama's call for hope and national unity, twin cornerstones of his unprecedented candidacy for the presidency.
I thought it was CHANGE?
(Blog author exasperated in that the MSM is ALREADY REVISING the HISTORY of the CAMPAIGN!)
The president-elect emphasized those themes in a brief speech to the massive, multicultural crowd, which stretched more than a dozen blocks from the Lincoln Memorial well past the Washington Monument to the National Mall.
Yeah, the MSM notices those crowds -- unlike the antiwar protesters, etc.
Obama, greeted by roaring cheers, declared that because the nation stands behind him, he is hopeful and undaunted by the sobering challenges before him. But he used the occasion to strike another theme that has emerged in his recent remarks: managing expectations of those eagerly anticipating his presidency.
Are you READY for a DICTATORSHIP?!!!!!
"Along the way there will be setbacks and false starts and days that test our resolve as a nation," he said. "But despite all of this - despite the enormity of the task that lies ahead - I stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure - that the dream of our Founders will live on in our time."
Standing alone in front of the statue of the seated Abraham Lincoln, Obama said that he drew hope from the great men symbolized by the setting - George Washington, Lincoln, and Martin Luther King Jr., who delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech there 45 years ago.
"And yet, as I stand here today, what gives me the greatest hope of all is not the stone and marble that surrounds us today, but what fills the spaces in between. It is you - Americans of every race and region and station who came here because you believe in what this country can be and because you want to help us get there," Obama said....
You mean, like 9/11 Truth and an END to the OCCUPATIONS based on such lies?
Obama takes office with challenges that would give pause to most world leaders: a staggering economy, the prospect of double-digit unemployment, and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The economic challenges were underscored yesterday when several of Obama's key advisers and political allies appeared on news talk shows. David Axelrod, Obama's chief political strategist, told CNN that a priority would be to "put the brakes" on the nation's 7.2 percent unemployment rate, while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would prefer that President Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy end before they are due to be terminated in 2010, a position that puts her at odds with the incoming president.
It's an easy position to stake out -- especially when you know it is going nowhere, 'eh, Nan?
Obama started his day on a somber note, traveling with Vice President-elect Joe Biden to Arlington National Cemetery to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns....
Yesterday's celebration seemed to underscore Obama's legacy as an African-American: In 1963, King delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech from the Lincoln Memorial. In 1968, protestors pitched tents around the memorial's reflecting pool to call attention to poverty in America.
That's what WE NEED TO DO, America!!! OCCUPY the CAPITOL until we FORCE THEM to CHANGE!!! Like the HOOVERVILLE VETS -- for as LONG as it TAKES!!!!!
Those at the event yesterday seemed to recognize its historic nature - even those who had to watch it on jumbo TV monitors a quarter-mile from the main stage in chilly, overcast weather. Spectators, who traveled from as far away as California, Kansas City, and Brazil, said they wanted to be part of the moment and take in the energy.
Bonnie Bayuk, 64, rose before dawn to make the journey from her home in New Haven and stood by the Washington Monument to take in the show. Bayuk, who said she lived in Washington during the tumultuous 1960s, said she had been to the mall before for antiwar demonstrations and other protests against the government, but this visit was unique on an entirely new level. "This is the first time it's all about joy," she said.
Yeah, we are all a bunch of angry people who are not fun! What BS!!!
Then again, recognition of mass-murder and torture in your name over s***hole lies is a bit of a killjoy.
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So ONCE AGAIN the MSM MISSED Dr. King's REAL MESSAGE! Shame on you, WAR-PROMOTING WAR DAIL...., oh, never mind. Everything makes sense now.
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