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Wednesday, April 4, 2007
TIMELY WORDS OF MY #1 HERO
"There is at the outset a very obvious and almost facile connection between the war in Vietnam and the struggle I, and others, have been waging in America. A few years ago there was a shining moment in that struggle. It seemed as if there was a real promise of hope for the poor - both black and white - through the poverty program. There were experiments, hopes, new beginnings. Then came the buildup in Vietnam and I watched the program broken and eviscerated as if it were some idle political plaything of a society gone mad on war, and I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. April 4, 1967, Riverside Church, NYC
(Dr. King was assassinated exactly one year later)
Full text on Truthout.com
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Good one Lady C. Nothing like badass quotes from brilliant people to get the gears turning...
I, myself, happen to be a civil disobedience fan...
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0909663.html
I was always amused when I saw footage of people lying limp on the ground in protest and the police trying to drag them around...
Posted by: Brink King Jr. at April 4, 2007 8:25 PM
eerie. prescient. incomparable.
Sacred.
Posted by: Ian at April 4, 2007 8:26 PM
It's so true and a vile travesty that the money being bled in Iraq could have radically reshaped Africa by now. It's all about oil because it will be gone sooner than later and the US will NEVER live without being the guy with the most oil. No one listened to Carter's energy program and everyone needs to drive (though not me, i've never been a driver or a car owner)
i need the fuel to take me back to the UK this year though.
Posted by: Super Amanda at April 4, 2007 8:45 PM
Dr. King had the finest political mind of his generation so it was inevitable that some unreconstructed hick would gun him down.
The sad thing is this; The only lesson Vietnam taught our present leaders is that the lowest common denominator in our society dearly loves to see brown people get fucked up on the evening news and it wins elections.
Posted by: steven at April 5, 2007 10:02 AM
EDIT:
Dr. King had the finest political mind of his generation so it was inevitable that some government agency would gun him down and pin it on an unreconstructed hick.
The sad thing is, the only thing Vietnam taught us is that the lowest common denominator in our society is that people like to get fucked up and then see brown people in the slot after the evening news.
Posted by: Godmonkey at April 5, 2007 4:43 PM
There is a McCain campaign ad trying to mack on me!
Posted by: Super Ho Chi Mindy at April 6, 2007 1:12 PM
Look, more robo-commentors! How will feed all of them?
Posted by: steven "I knew I needed a bigger ham" felty at April 7, 2007 4:47 PM
There's only ONE thing big enough to stuff such yawning maws...
Ah, hell. I need to go to church or something foolish like that.
Dr. King was a preacher, a REAL one--so I can't let myself get too sketchy when his name is mentioned. Along with Mother Teresa, Dr. King is one of the only true "saints" of modernity. Sojourner Truth, Ghandi, and Dorothy Day are others.
It pisses me off that the Vat-Cat drag queens have put John Paul II on the fast-track to canonization when Dr. King and Mother-T are far more worthy and "miraculous" than that wily-tho-grandfatherly misogynist.
I'm sorry--I always get a bit scattered during Easter weekend. You can take the boy out of the Catholic...
Posted by: Ian at April 7, 2007 6:12 PM
I wonder who they hire to write the copy for those spams...
Someone has to do it at some point in the chain right? OR decide what the computers will write?
Weird...
Posted by: Brink at April 8, 2007 2:24 AM
I'm a spam connoisseur, I think most of it still gets written in Eastern Europe and Asia with the help of Babelfish; giving us beauties like "I have a bigger cock in the world!"
Posted by: steven "online since Al Gore invented it" felty at April 8, 2007 11:06 AM
Leslie Bennetts is really annoying, her book needs to come with a foreward by Zoe Baird.
Posted by: Bella Abzug Lives at April 8, 2007 9:27 PM
http://superamanda.blogspot.com/2007/04/feminine-chauvinist-mistake-part-one.html
Posted by: LiZ Gurley Fynn at April 8, 2007 10:43 PM
Hrrrrrrmmmmmm...so those are the knockers everyone's been raving about...
Posted by: Brink at April 8, 2007 11:16 PM
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