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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
do you believe that everyone in the "movement" was a FAN of MLK Jr/Sr??? (despite his rhetoric to the contrary NOW,jesse jackson certainly was NOT an "Dr King ADMIRER"! jessie was "out for" jessie & that's all. he was NOT alone in being "self-absorbed" & SELF-interested, especially after MLK was murdered.)

that could be the reason. i just don't know.

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532 posted on 10/31/2006 2:49:42 PM PST by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: stand watie
There's a good article from Time Magazine about Dr. King's last days, including this description of what happened back in Atlanta as they discussed their next move after the disaster of the Memphis march:

This time King stood seething. "Ralph, give me my car keys," he said quietly. Abernathy surrendered them with a stricken, quizzical look as King said they could go on without him. "He did something I've never heard him do before," Levison confided afterward on his wiretapped phone. "He criticized three members of the staff with his eloquence. And believe me, that's murder. And was very negative." King said Young had given in to doubt, Bevel to brains, and Jackson to ambition. He said they had forgotten the simple truths of witness. He said the movement had made them, and now they were using the movement to promote themselves. He confronted Bevel, who had been a mentor to Jackson and Young, as a genius who flummoxed his own heart. "You don't like to work on anything that isn't your own idea," said King. "Bevel, I think you owe me one."

Abernathy, Jackson and Young rushed after King. "Doc, doc, don't worry!" called Jackson in the stairwell. "Everything's going to be all right."

King whirled on a landing and pointed up to shout. "Jesse, everything's not going to be all right!" he cried. "If things keep going the way they're going now, it's not SCLC but the whole country that's in trouble. I'm not asking, 'Support me.' I don't need this. But if you're so interested in doing your own thing that you can't do what this organization's structured to do, if you want to carve out your own niche in society, go ahead. But for God's sake, don't bother me!" His fury echoed in the conference room.


533 posted on 10/31/2006 3:38:44 PM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep
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