‘‘They used Dr. King’s holiday as a mask for racial villainy and harassment.’’
The chief villain of our times:
"As the nation remembered and reflected Monday on the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., leaders and everyday Americans talked about how far the country has come in the past 50 years and how much more is to be done, President Obama honored King’s legacy of service by helping a soup kitchen prepare its daily meals….
Related: More Than 2,400 Dead as Obama’s Drone Campaign Marks Five Years
Hopefully one day he will find his mass-murdering ass in a soup line.
In New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio marked the day by talking about economic inequality….
See: The Globe's Greasy Fingers
This article is slipping through my fingers.
UPDATE: NEW YORK’S ‘LIBERAL’ MAYOR SPEAKS ~~ AT AIPAC
Now you know why and how he was allowed to win election.
Singer and activist Harry Belafonte headlined the 28th annual Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium at the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus. ‘‘I’m not too sure where America is at this moment,’’ he said."
I am. The mass-murdering empire is destroying itself while the the wealthiest philanthropists did not give as much in 2013 as they gave before the Great Recession, even as a "strong stock market and better business climate have continued to concentrate American wealth in the top 1 percent of earners."
Any questions?
"Pastors and politicians gathered at a breakfast in Boston on Monday to commemorate the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and challenge everyone to help realize King’s dream of a better society.
Governor Deval Patrick, who has been a fixture at the event during his tenure as a governor, praised the late civil rights leader for bringing “love into public discourse” and commitment to public service.
Was he committed to serving criminal government?
“We could use more of Dr. King’s message right now,” said Patrick, noting that King believed everyone could serve his community in some way. “We could use more love in each of us, for each of us.”
F*** him!
About 800 people attended the breakfast at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, which has been held in Boston for 44 years and is the oldest event of its kind in the nation. King was assassinated in 1968 at age 39….
I keep forgetting he died so young. He was wise beyond his years.
Related:
"In the fall of 1967 — a few months before he was killed in a Memphis motel on April 4, 1968 — King made his last trip to Boston."
He wasn't killed in the motel, he was killed just outside it.
They can't even get that right!
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Sorry I fail the love for thine enemies test; can't do it until they repent and pay four their sins.
Also see: Walsh reveals part of the note from Menino
At the grass-roots level, Bostonians honor Dr. King
The agenda-pushing coverage boils down to a lot about race, a little about poverty, and nothing about war and nonviolence. Not surprising anymore from a war-promoting propaganda pre$$. Seems like I post the same complaints every year.
"As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men.... They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government."
I'm living that dream.
At least the Globe honors my heroes:
"Audiotape portrays King as restrained in praise of Kennedys" Associated Press, January 20, 2014
NASHVILLE — As the nation reflects on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., an audiotape of an interview with the civil rights leader discovered in a Tennessee attic sheds light on a phone call John F. Kennedy made to King’s wife more than 50 years ago.
Historians generally agree that Kennedy’s phone call to Coretta Scott King, expressing concern over her husband’s arrest in October 1960 — and Robert Kennedy’s work behind the scenes to get King released — helped JFK win the White House that fall.
Related: Fingering RFK For Castro Assassination Plots
King himself, although appreciative, was not as quick to credit the Kennedys alone with getting him out of jail, according to a previously unreleased portion of the interview with the civil rights leader days after Kennedy’s election.
‘‘The Kennedy family did have some part . . . in the release,’’ King says in the recording, which was discovered in 2012. ‘‘But I must make it clear that many other forces worked to bring it about also.’’
A copy of the original recording will be played for visitors at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis for a ‘‘King Day’’ event Monday.
King was arrested a few weeks before the presidential election at an Atlanta sit-in. Charges were dropped, but King was held for allegedly violating probation for an earlier traffic offense and transferred to the Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Ga.
The Kennedys intervened, and King was released. Their intervention won the support of black voters who helped give Kennedy the winning edge in several states, historians say.
Despite their help, however, King was careful not to give them too much credit.
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Also see: The Globe's JFK Junk
More junk:
"An Arizona State University fraternity’s operations have been suspended following accusations that the local Tau Kappa Epsilon chapter hosted a distasteful party in commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, replete with racist stereotypes and offensive costumes. Pictures from the party made their way onto social media websites, depicting guests dressed in basketball jerseys, flashing gang signs, and holding watermelon-shaped cups."
The good doctor must be twirling in his grave at warp speed regarding this atrocious coverage of his holiday.
While on the subject of partying youth:
"Yale fraternity sued in 2011 tailgate death" by Peter Schworm | Globe Staff, January 16, 2014\
In an unusual legal maneuver, the estate of a Salem woman killed in 2011 when a rental truck plowed into tailgaters at a Harvard-Yale football game has sued the driver’s fraternity and 86 current and former members, claiming they bear responsibility.
The estate of Nancy Barry previously had filed a wrongful death suit against the national offices of Sigma Phi Epsilon, but is now taking legal action against the group’s Yale University chapter and its members after the national fraternity asserted it did not sanction the pregame gathering, the lawyer representing Barry’s estate said Wednesday.
“The national organization is basically disowning them,” Paul Edwards, who filed the civil suit late last month in Superior Court, said of the Yale fraternity members. “We didn’t want to sue the kids, but our hand was forced.”
Representatives for Sigma Phi Epsilon could not be reached for comment.
Edwards said he had never heard of a national fraternity claiming it was not responsible for an event sponsored by a college chapter. He said the fraternity’s insurance company has taken the same stance.
“It’s really a double whammy for the kids,” he said. “Quite frankly, they should be standing by their members.”
Barry, 30, was tailgating with friends when she was struck by a U-Haul truck carrying kegs of beer to the fraternity party. Two others were injured.
What time of day was this?
Then Yale junior Brendan Ross, a fraternity member, was driving the rental vehicle across a large intramural field used for tailgating when he accelerated, striking the three women before crashing into two parked trucks.
Ross was initially charged with negligent homicide with a motor vehicle, but last February received probation after the charges were reduced to reckless driving. Prosecutors said he lost control of the truck after revving the engine in an effort to disperse the crowd.
In other words, he was being an impatient asshole.
See: Putting Up the Tailgate
Now we see why he got special treatment from the law.
Ross passed a field sobriety test after the accident. His lawyer could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
Edwards said Barry’s estate is seeking several million dollars in the suit.
In the complaint, Edwards contends the social event was clearly sanctioned by the fraternity, saying the U-Haul was rented “at the direction and for the benefit of the fraternity.”
As a result, the members of the fraternity are liable for Ross’s negligence, the complaint states. A woman injured in the crash, Sarah Short, has filed a similar complaint against the fraternity and its members.
Barry had traveled to New Haven to visit Short, who was a graduate student at Yale. Barry graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2003, and aspired to be a fashion designer.
A previous suit, which is pending, named Ross, U-Haul, and Yale as defendants. It claimed that Yale failed to take steps to ensure that people at the event were “reasonably safe from the dangers of moving vehicles” that were likely operated by experienced truck drivers.
A Yale spokesman declined to comment Wednesday.
Edwards said he is hopeful the lawsuit will spur the national chapter to drop its claim that it bears no responsibility for the chapter.
“I would expect many of the members of the fraternity hope that as well,” he said.
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Related:
"Fraternity stands by Yale chapter sued in 2011 tailgate death" by John R. Ellement | Globe staff, January 16, 2014
The national leadership of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity says it is providing legal assistance to its Yale University chapter, which is being sued by the estate of a Salem woman killed in 2011 when a rental truck driven by a fraternity member plowed into tailgaters at a Harvard-Yale football game.
The estate of Nancy Barry is also suing 86 current and former members of the fraternity.
Barry was fatally injured when Brendan Ross, driving a U-Haul truck carrying kegs of beer, accelerated across a large intramural field and crashed into Barry, two other people, and two parked cars.
Paul Edwards, attorney for Barry’s estate, told the Globe Wednesday that the national leadership was “basically disowning’’ current and past members of its Yale chapter.
But the fraternity’s chief executive, Brian Warren, said Thursday that his organization supports the Yale chapter.
“I traveled to New Haven the day of the accident to ensure members of our Yale chapter were receiving the support and assistance they needed,’’ he said. “Since the incident occurred, we have diligently worked to support the members of our Yale chapter.”
Ross was initially charged with negligent homicide with a motor vehicle, but received probation after the charges were reduced to reckless driving. Prosecutors said he lost control of the truck after revving the engine in an effort to disperse the crowd.
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Related:
"Fraternity stands by Yale chapter sued in 2011 tailgate death" by John R. Ellement | Globe staff, January 16, 2014
The national leadership of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity says it is providing legal assistance to its Yale University chapter, which is being sued by the estate of a Salem woman killed in 2011 when a rental truck driven by a fraternity member plowed into tailgaters at a Harvard-Yale football game.
The estate of Nancy Barry is also suing 86 current and former members of the fraternity.
Barry was fatally injured when Brendan Ross, driving a U-Haul truck carrying kegs of beer, accelerated across a large intramural field and crashed into Barry, two other people, and two parked cars.
Paul Edwards, attorney for Barry’s estate, told the Globe Wednesday that the national leadership was “basically disowning’’ current and past members of its Yale chapter.
But the fraternity’s chief executive, Brian Warren, said Thursday that his organization supports the Yale chapter.
“I traveled to New Haven the day of the accident to ensure members of our Yale chapter were receiving the support and assistance they needed,’’ he said. “Since the incident occurred, we have diligently worked to support the members of our Yale chapter.”
Ross was initially charged with negligent homicide with a motor vehicle, but received probation after the charges were reduced to reckless driving. Prosecutors said he lost control of the truck after revving the engine in an effort to disperse the crowd.
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Why Am I No Longer Reading the Newspaper?
I just wanted you to see the mask of villainy I look at every day.
