|BlackJesus| Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 [center] [font="Arial Black"][size=4][b]... He was killed the next day[/b][/size][/font][/center] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#22 Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 Does anyone still doubt that: A.) He knew that he was going to die, and B.) That J. Edgar Hoover was responsible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jamie_B Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 [quote name='#22' post='625518' date='Jan 21 2008, 11:13 PM'][/quote] Good speech. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BengalBacker Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 Obama couldn't carry MLK's jock. But seriously, I was disappointed in Obama's speech. I guess not so much his speech, it was actually pretty good overall, he's just too far left for me. MLK had something going for him that was undeniable. He was unquestionably right. He obviously knew it was going to cost him his life, and he accepted that. As most of you know I'm not religious, but he's one of those very rare people whose words seem to come from a higher consciousness. Their brilliance is in their simplicity. I think it was destiny that a MLK would happen, not necessarily him, but someone would essentially fill that role. Not in a cosmic sense, but more cause and effect. Of course that role might have been filled by someone much more militant. We would all live in a different world now. For me, the greatness of MLK was his wisdom in knowing that non-violence was the only way. If you resort to violence, you may no longer be "unquestionably right". It could have been much uglier, and the domino effect that might have been, is hard to imagine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|BlackJesus| Posted January 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 [quote name='BengalBacker' post='625548' date='Jan 22 2008, 03:14 AM']But seriously, I was disappointed in Obama's speech. I guess not so much his speech, it was actually pretty good overall, [b]he's just too far left for me.[/b][/quote] [b][size=3]Obama would probably be to the right of MLK[/size] ... who was a democratic socialist. Imagine Obama saying these things ... [/b] [center][i]"You can't talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You're really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry ... Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that [b]something is wrong with capitalism[/b] … There must be a better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a Democratic Socialism."[/i] ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 1966 [i]"The movement must address itself to the question of restructuring the whole of American society. There are forty million poor people here. And one day we must ask the question, Why are there forty million poor people in America? And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, [b]you begin to question the capitalistic economy. [/b] And I'm simply saying that more and more, we've got to begin to ask questions about the whole society. We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. It means that questions must be raised. You see, my friends, when you deal with this, you begin to ask the question, Who owns the oil? You begin to ask the question, Who owns the iron ore? You begin to ask the question, Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that is two-thirds water? These are questions that must be asked."[/i] ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. [i]"We must rapidly begin the shift from a 'thing'-oriented society to a person- oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered."[/i] ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. [i]"The dispossessed of this country the poor, the white and Negro live in a cruelly unjust society. they must organize a revolution against that injustice, not against the lives of the persons who are their fellow citizens, but against the structures through which society is refusing to take means which have been called for, and which are at hand, to lift the load of poverty."[/i] ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. [i]"He is deprived of normal education and normal social and economic opportunities. When he seeks opportunities, [b]he is told, in effect, to lift himself up by his own bootstraps, advice which does not take into account the fact that he is barefoot."[/b][/i] ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. [i]"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring."[/i] ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.[/center] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted January 23, 2008 Report Share Posted January 23, 2008 Hey BJ. Ever read this book? [url="http://www.amazon.com/Questions-About-American-History-Supposed/dp/0307346684"]33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask[/url] I only ask as your answer is similar to the chapter on MLK... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|BlackJesus| Posted January 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2008 [quote name='Elflocko' post='625785' date='Jan 22 2008, 08:18 PM']Hey BJ. Ever read this book? [url="http://www.amazon.com/Questions-About-American-History-Supposed/dp/0307346684"]33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask[/url] I only ask as your answer is similar to the chapter on MLK...[/quote] [b]I've never read it ... but I'll have to put it on my reading list. [/b] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted January 23, 2008 Report Share Posted January 23, 2008 [quote name='BlackJesus' post='625811' date='Jan 22 2008, 09:24 PM'][b]I've never read ... but I'll have to put it on my reading list. [/b][/quote] I found it an enjoyable read, but I also lean Libertarian so go figure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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