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Posted: January 16, 2006 12:02 am
by SMLCHNG
That's awesome, Sheree.
I salute a man who 'had a dream', that I wish I knew more about.
Google has a kewl logo.
Posted: January 16, 2006 12:04 am
by springparrot
SMLCHNG wrote:Google has a kewl logo.
Very nice Penny.
Posted: January 16, 2006 12:47 am
by Lightning Bolt
It's MLK Day in America
This country misses you greatly Dr. King
Posted: January 16, 2006 12:49 am
by sonofabeach
Thank you to Martin Luther King and everyone else involved in the civil rights movement for all of their courage and perseverance.
Thanks to ya'll I'm living the dream
Posted: January 16, 2006 7:33 am
by BahamaBreeze
Sorry to hear Mrs. King didn't recover from her stroke so that she could talk again and his children didn't carry on his vision.
ATLANTA - As the nation celebrates the contributions of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., his legacy is under attack and its greatest defender is unable to speak.
Dr. King's widow, Coretta Scott King, is recovering from a stroke she suffered last summer that also left her partially paralyzed. Meanwhile, the Kings' four children are divided, battling over who will control their father's message of nonviolence and whether to sell the family-run center that promotes his teachings.
At least two of them, Bernice and Martin III, admit they've neglected their father's legacy and should have done more to prevent the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change - the site of their father's tomb - from falling more than $11 million into disrepair. They say they've failed to focus on promoting the Atlanta center, which their mother started almost 40 years ago.
Posted: January 16, 2006 9:30 am
by jonesbeach10
I don't have a plan
It's not that kind of thing
I'm not Martin Luther King
I don't have a dream
It's just sometimes I know
That's the way I'm supposed to go
Sail on Dr. King
Posted: January 16, 2006 9:37 am
by LIPH
It won't be a
real holiday until we start seeing TV commercials with some buffoon dressed up as MLK pimping sales of electronics, cars and things like that. That's all Presidents' Day is now.
Posted: January 16, 2006 10:36 am
by jonesbeach10
LIPH wrote:It won't be a
real holiday until we start seeing TV commercials with some buffoon dressed up as MLK pimping sales of electronics, cars and things like that. That's all Presidents' Day is now.
Too true.
Posted: January 16, 2006 10:39 am
by Wino you know
LIPH wrote:It won't be a
real holiday until we start seeing TV commercials with some buffoon dressed up as MLK pimping sales of electronics, cars and things like that. That's all Presidents' Day is now.
That shouldn't surprise anyone anymore.
When all the stores put out their Christmas junk in SEPTEMBER, and two days after Christmas all the retailers start shoving the Valentines Day crap down our throats, it sure doesn't surprise
ME.
Posted: January 16, 2006 4:28 pm
by captainjoe
Posted: January 16, 2006 4:32 pm
by job41475
I love that speech. Thank you for posting it..
Posted: January 16, 2006 6:54 pm
by captainjoe
I can't imagine what it was like to live through this. Dr King wrote some of the most beautiful words I have ever read. This little paragragh pretty much says it all:
Dr Martin Luther King Jr wrote:We have waited for more than 340 years for our constitutional and God-given rights. The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independence, but we stiff creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch counter. Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging dark of segregation to say, "Wait." But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick and even kill your black brothers and sisters; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky, and see her beginning to distort her personality by developing an unconscious bitterness toward white people; when you have to concoct an answer for a five-year-old son who is asking: "Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?"; when you take a cross-county drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile because no motel will accept you; when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading "white" and "colored"; when your first name becomes "nigger," your middle name becomes "boy" (however old you are) and your last name becomes "John," and your wife and mother are never given the respected title "Mrs."; when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro, living constantly at tiptoe stance, never quite knowing what to expect next, and are plagued with inner fears and outer resentments; when you no forever fighting a degenerating sense of "nobodiness" then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair. I hope, sirs, you can understand our legitimate and unavoidable impatience.
Posted: January 15, 2007 9:12 am
by UAHparrothead
BTT
Posted: January 15, 2007 9:33 am
by Skibo
For some really interesting history which helps put the struggle into perspective, check out this site
www.aaregistry.com/
You can sign up for a This day in history e-mail. There is a lot of interesting stuff in it.
Posted: January 15, 2007 10:03 am
by flipflopgirl
Thanks again for this thread Brad! and to everyone for the different pieces of info on Dr.King!!!! It reminds us all of how we are just one small part of what makes our world so wonderful and diverse!
And to remind us to be tolerant and kind to each other!!!!!!
Thank you Dr.King for your words and inspiration!!!!!
Re: Martin Luther King Day
Posted: January 15, 2007 10:09 am
by Moonie
The "I have a dream" speech is certainly the one every one knows, possibly the Nobel Peace Prize Lecture follows 2nd...
but some of his writings from jail in Birmingham are certainly worth reading...
and I wonder how many, black and white, even know they exist, and if so, have ever bothered to read them....although I don't agree entirely with Black History month, it's some of his best work.
Wonder what he'd think about the fiasco we have going on now in this country...
Posted: January 15, 2007 1:02 pm
by tikitatas
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I believe this may reflect some of his thinking on war.
Posted: January 15, 2007 1:15 pm
by VanillaGrl
Sleep, sleep tonight
And may your dreams be realised.
If the thunder cloud passes rain
So let it rain, rain down on he.
So let it be.
So let it be
A mere thanks does not seem enough, keep Dreaming Out Loud.
Posted: January 15, 2007 1:16 pm
by Moonie
I believe Rev. King also would want us to remember on this day...to celebrate the lives of others who gave so unselfishly of themselves to set people free...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1535.html
Posted: January 15, 2007 1:27 pm
by UAHparrothead
Updated link for the "I have a Dream"
speech
http://www.usconstitution.net/dream.html
