Posted on 06/14/2014 8:49:55 AM PDT by kingattax
Sipping a hot cup of unsweetened green tea at 3am, I felt compelled to revisit Dr Martin Luther King, Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech on the internet. These excerpts leaped out at me.
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of “interposition” and “nullification” — one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
Wow, what a remarkable dignified, unifying and patriotic speech. My dad and I were there, August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC. There were yellow school buses parked as far as I could see. The mood of the sea of mostly black faces was happy, peaceful and orderly. As a black kid, Dr King was like nothing I had ever seen before, his voice bigger than life filling the mall; a black man boldly, articulately and eloquently addressing white America on our behalf. I was in total awe of him. What I heard that day was a message rooted in Christian love; a call for mutual respect and citizens of all races coming together as Americans.
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It’s true, I’ve generally noticed it’s the lighter-skinned blacks that tend to be the most militant. As if they feel like they need to be so radical to prove they belong to the club.
It is sad, that only the military and truly well-managed corporations* are close to being color-blind - that is, setting up a system so that the best and brightest will rise unimpeded.
*No, I’m not talking about window-dressing or “making the quota”.
I don't worship King or anyone or anything for that matter. All I know is that he walked his talk, even though other racists hung on to his coat tails. Geeze, there were even white racists at the big TEA Party in DC years back. The scum use good people and good events to further their agendas. Nothing new.
It would be funny to see how many blacks there would be on the owners' side of the table.
"It would be funny to see how many blacks there would be on the owners' side of the table."
To this day in Africa. Heard a peep out of any of the race-baiters about the slave trade in Africa?, not to mention the rapes, murders, and genocide by black against black. Oops forgot Chicago, Detroit, Philly, et al.
Hmmm, when it starts who will the police be going after with all their MRAPs?
Drunken History had the FUNNIEST episode of MLK being investigated by Hoover. But all the episodes are funny.
Interestingly, I saw Dennis Miller on one of the cable channels last night. He said that racism, as an insult has become so overused and worn out, it’s the new “doodyhead”.
Besides Jesus Christ himself, name one leader, from Abraham, to Moses, to King David, to Jefferson, to Lincoln, to Reagan, who didn't have their own "personal issues". Heck, even Christ had his Judas.
No, we hold up MLK with respect because of his ideas. Would that we had black leaders of his stature today.
It is your right to nitpick and criticize, but in this instance it makes you appear small and petty - to me anyway.
Booker T. Washington was much more eloquent.
Good luck with that. I saw in real time the Koreans standing atop their stores with rifles trained on the crazies during the Los Angeles riots after Rodney King verdict. Not sure, but I don't think one of those stores were looted or burned down. Extrapolate that to the 100's of thousands of law-abiding gun owners in the surrounding suburbs.
Hate to say it, but sometimes I wish they would try their sh*t in the suburbs - which they now threaten. Bet they learn a long time lesson. Yes, the gang members have some automatic weapons and the average scum may have semi-auto handguns, but they are no match for suburbanites and rural folks with rifles and scopes, not to mention behind those scopes are military Veterans.
They know better and that's why they always burn down their own neighborhoods. They don't have and never will have the balls to take their crap to an armed community.
You make a good point if you think blacks versus hispanics warfare that is going on right now. Think Sunni versus Sheites.
Classic Dennis Miller.
According to your tagline, you own a '64 Impala? I have '58 Impala.
You're uninformed as to the truth about MLK.
He was a leftist radical who smeared American troops by calling them murderers and racists, killing anything that moved in Vietnam. He favored reparations, and had many well-known Communist connections. He called for a radical revolution of values in the US (sound familiar?) and stated that America was the greatest purveyor of violence in the world. He sided with the Communist government in Vietnam, and said that it had good reason to be suspicious of the US.
Look up the text of King's 1967 Riverside church speech. Leftwing websites hold up that particular piece of oration as a masterpiece.
Hold a leftwing radical up with respect? Not this conservative. And if recognizing and speaking the truth about that Communist makes me petty, I welcome the label.
Wish for black leaders of his "stature?" Look around, we have plenty of them.
No one...too controversial. Doesn't matter what toys the authorities have (many SWAT units existed at the time) if they are too political to use them. The police pulled out and left Los Angeles to burn until the National Guard finally came in. Actually, I think the savages just got tired and went home to drink their stolen booze and enjoy their stolen TV's.
What really torked me off, was the Firemen being shot at and/or molotov cocktails thrown at them with little to no police support. That's why LA burned for so long - the Fire Departments had to stop responding to save their own and I don't blame them. What a disgrace that was to Los Angeles Police Department, but then they've long been known to be disgraceful.
The only problem with the savages' "burn, baby, burn" mentality is guess who pays to rebuild their crappy "hood". Again, I hope they come to suburbia. And yes, Intel Agencies, I will go to jail before I tell you who owns them. Been there, done that in my youth. Have less fear nowadays at my end days.
Had MLK lived in these days and witnessed the slaughter among his people, he may not have had a dream at all but would be carrying a concealed handgun.
In contrast, Booker T. Washington appealed to a common history, common interests between the races, in a classic address that showed a deep understanding of how America had always worked best. In place of King's platitudes & calls for intrusive Government, Washington cited the experiences of his listeners as to what would work to common advantage. (See Booker T. Washington Address.)
Under Washington's leadership, Black America turned a corner socially--the crime rate began to fall, as did the percentage of out-of-wedlock births. These phenomena were reversed under the corrupting influence of the New Deal, with an acceleration of the breakdown, with the success of King & the Civil Rights Movement.
That is history; however some may deny it. We should bear witness to the tragedy involved in this; but the media keeps ignoring what has actually followed the Socialistic influences they continue to glorify.
William Flax
Good point. Think he would be happy about Chicago, Detroit, Philly, St. Louis, Los Angeles, DC, etc.? I think not. He probably would have been on par with Allen West, Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell and such.
To a poster above: Yeah, I know King was a socialist, but his message about "content of character" rang true and I still believe in that ideal. When's the last time you heard that from a liberal/socialist/communist? Hell, when's the last time you heard it from a Republican elite?
See my post #37.
Thank you.
Washington championed unity, while King advocated policies that brought about division and unrest.
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