50 years.
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Anyone old enough to remember today?
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I wasn't around, but I was aware it was the 50th yesterday.
What do you mean? Is it a reference to the video?
Usually the older you get the more likely you’ll FORGET today, right @Bert Higginbotha? jk
You are really in trouble Rocky. The dragnet is now out for the great Cardinal!
On Dr. King, I watched the march on DC and listened to the "I have a dream" speech. That was just before my senior year in high school.
I remember the day he was shot.
I remember the friction that followed it.
And then they killed Robert F. Kennedy. Then the riots at the Democratic Nominating Convention. All the while the war in Viet Nam was going on and getting hotter. I lost 5 kids that I went to school with in that conflict.
During this we had Woodstock, free love (I never found any!) and the best damned music ever. That was back in the day were a guy like Jimi Hendrix could be great at rock and roll and be in the 101st Airborne.
Heh. Had someone recently post on Facebook the Pence meme (Pence tweeting about how important MLKs actions and example were, someone else reminding Pence he walked out of a football game because people kneeled) and a few folks got into a disagreement about it. Not heated or anything, just a discussion between a few liberals and a few conservatives. Then this one acquiantece who is BIG on “patriotism” but really small on brains posted that at least MLK wouldn’t have knelt like the NFL guys did.
A few folks on both sides mentioned that they thought that Martin Luther King would *probably* be pretty okay with a peaceful protest by black people agaist what they see as systemic police violence against African Americans.
I swear... sometimes I am both baffled and painfully amused by when people say something or post something without a modicum of reflection or thought.
A few folks on both sides mentioned that they thought that Martin Luther King would *probably* be pretty okay with a peaceful protest by black people agaist what they see as systemic police violence against African Americans.
I swear... sometimes I am both baffled and painfully amused by when people say something or post something without a modicum of reflection or thought.
"...it is as necessary for me to be as vigorous in condemning the conditions which cause persons to feel that they must engage in riotous activities as it is for me to condemn riots. I think America must see that riots do not develop out of thin air. Certain conditions continue to exist in our society which must be condemned as vigorously as we condemn riots."
"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate...who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom;... Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."
I would like to see MLK in today's world. I think it would be different than what most people expect.
Most people would expect a civil rights leader who is intelligent and thoughtful, a reverend, who is not afraid to stand up to the powers that be for what he believes is right, and who condemns violence. I think that is exactly what we would get. I mean... he didn't live that long ago, and he left an AWFUL lot of writing and spoken words from which we can learn.
This country would a better place with MLK still alive. I honestly believe that 110%.
Well, yeah
he would be a great leader for the black community, and a great ambassador for the white community.
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From the example of how he shifted focus from race to matters of war, wages, and poverty in the last years of his life, I suspect he would have continued to pursue justice everywhere for as long as he was able (he'd be 89 now). And a lot of people who have caught up to his ideas about racial integration in the 50 years since his death would be complaining about what a troublemaker and whiner he was.
The whitewashing of MLK is a shame b/c accepting a revisionist idea of who he was gives some people just enough self-righteousness to condemn contemporary civil rights leaders.
You know, I misread your post... I for some reason took it to mean that HE would be different, not that the WORLD would be different. Sorry if my post didn’t make sense
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