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brianlux
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What does this day mean to you?
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Variously credited to Mark Twain or Edward Abbey.
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1) brian is feeling like a rascal today. Thinking to stir it up a bit?
2) Was this day intended to be an acknowledgement of only black/white racism? If so, Rosa Parks symbolizes this better for me.
3) If this day is supposed to be about inequality in general, I'd like to see an annual change, a new symbolic face reflect that each year; i.e. child labor & sweatshops, right to vote, women's lib etc..
2. I think it was simple designated as a day to acknowledge the work of Martin Luther King. And give certain employees (ahem!) the day off. (There I go, stirring it ups again.
3 Interesting idea, Dancepartner!
Over the years his legacy has been perverted and bastardized
One of the greatest Americans to ever live
Mountaintop speech is awesome, the end he is basically saying... I know Im a dead man, but Im not scared, not worried, you're scared, you're worried, kill me the man but you cant kill the message
What would you do if you KNEW that what you stood for would kill you? Would you still take to the streets, speak and march against the powerful?
.........
And they were telling me --. Now, it doesn't matter, now. It really doesn't matter what happens now. I left Atlanta this morning, and as we got started on the plane, there were six of us. The pilot said over the public address system, "We are sorry for the delay, but we have Dr. Martin Luther King on the plane. And to be sure that all of the bags were checked, and to be sure that nothing would be wrong with on the plane, we had to check out everything carefully. And we've had the plane protected and guarded all night."
And then I got into Memphis. And some began to say the threats, or talk about the threats that were out. What would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers?
Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind.
Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!
And so I'm happy, tonight.
I'm not worried about anything.
I'm not fearing any man!
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!!
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Good quote, JC.
"...I changed by not changing at all..."
id be very surprised if MLK looks at it as an honor!
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.”
Plus, Obama then ignored the holiday by making all the inauguration workers work and I kind of wonder why nobody brought that up.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
King’s famous denunciation of America’s war in Vietnam came exactly a year before his murder, before a crowd of 3,000 in the Riverside Church in Manhattan. He described Vietnam’s destruction at the hands of ”deadly Western arrogance,” insisting that ”we are on the side of the wealthy, and the secure, while we create a hell for the poor We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.
The Army increased surveillance on King. Green Berets and other Special Forces veterans from Vietnam began making street maps and identifying sniper sites in major American cities. The Ku Klux Klan was recruited by the 20th Special Forces Group, headquartered in Alabama, as a subsidiary intelligence network. The Army began offering 30.06 sniper rifles to police departments, including that of Memphis. King was dogged by spy units through early ’67. A Green Beret unit was operating in Memphis the day he was shot. The bullet that killed him came from a 30.06 rifle purchased in a Memphis store. Army intelligence chiefs became increasingly hysterical over the threat of King to national stability.
I understand your hatred for Obama... but, you have to pin this on on the Constitution, not Obama.
Amendment 20 of the Constitution of The United States of America:
Section 1. The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
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So, you need to blame our Constitution for this one and file your grievences with it.
Hail, Hail!!!
Not at all.
They were sworn in yesterday. They are not mandated to have a big party today on a government holiday meant to honor MLK. They could have had it yesterday, couldn't they?
I have no specific hatred for Obama. I pretty much hate all elected officials equally. They are all doing a grievous disservice to the public they are supposed to serve.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
On the same day as the Conference Championship games that decides on who goes to the Super Bowl?
You know... in America, other than Super Bowl Sunday, that is the greatest religious holiday of them all. The South would have declared a Civil War because Atlanta was one of the four teams.
Hail, Hail!!!
All I'm saying is that I'm surprised I don't hear more people wondering why they basically negated a government holiday meant to honor an American hero by requiring a bunch of people in Washington to work on a day they were supposed to have off.
Nevermind stealing the thunder from any parades or observances.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
That's a lot of hatred.
"Love and only love will endure
Hate is everything you think it is."
-Neil Young
Just a thought- not meaning to provoke.
Boston University decided not to revoke his doctorate, saying that although King acted improperly, his dissertation still "makes an intelligent contribution to scholarship." However, a letter is now attached to King's dissertation in the university library, noting that numerous passages were included without the appropriate quotations and citations of sources.
Dr. Ralph Abernathy, a close associate of King, stated in his 1989 autobiography And the Walls Came Tumbling Down that King had a “weakness for women.” In a later interview, Abernathy said he only wrote the term “womanizing” and did not specifically say King had extramarital sex. King’s biographer David Garrow detailed what he called King’s “compulsive sexual athleticism,” writing about a number of extramarital affairs, including one with a woman King saw almost daily. According to Garrow, “that relationship, rather than his marriage, increasingly became the emotional centerpiece of King’s life, but it did not eliminate the other incidental couplings that were a commonplace of King’s travels.” King explained his extramarital affairs as “a form of anxiety reduction”. Garrow noted that King’s promiscuity was the cause of “painful and overwhelming guilt feelings.”
On January 31, 1977, United States district Judge John Lewis Smith, Jr., ordered all known copies of the recorded audiotapes and written transcripts resulting from the FBI’s electronic surveillance of King between 1963 and 1968 to be held in the National Archives and sealed from public access until 2027.
Inspired by congressman Lewis
Deserves requote and bold.
"unjust war distracted from domestic social programs"
I don't think loyalty to the country should be measured by our ability to kill. I think our loyalties to the country should be measured by our ability to lead the nation to higher heights of democracy and the great dream of justice and humanity
Libtardaplorable©. And proud of it.
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Libtardaplorable©. And proud of it.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/martin-luther-king-jr-was-a-true-conservative/2017/01/15/b0f465e4-d9c6-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/john_lewis/400240
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/browse?sponsor=400240#enacted_ex=on