Tag: Martin Luther King Jr

‘A Riot Is the Language of the Unheard’

As the weekend begins I find myself not seeing anything that I would call “cool” to post on…….so I will retreat into the world of illusion and crap….politics.

Cooler weather has finally shown up….perfect weather for taking it to the streets……..

I have been surfing some of those “other” sites….you know the ones….those that see “bad guys” behind every action….a bomb, a killing and riot…..most of them are feeding the hysteria of FEAR.

We have had a couple of years of “riots” over the killing of people……mostly black lives have been destroyed…..there is a wealth of blog posts that come down on the two sides …but few people are looking at the underlying situations.

We have heard all the analysis….mostly from people that have NO idea what is truly going on in the society as a whole….most of them view it from their position within it.

The problem is that the people that are rioting seem to believe that their voices mean nothing in this society….and of course when that is brought up we will hear the quotes from MLK, Jr……the problem is most of them a selective and tries to reinforce the “norm” in this society……but MLK had so much more to say…..

The words of the real MLK were far more radical than today’s cherry-picked lines.

The Martin Luther King Jr. who is cynically trotted out every time racial unrest erupts in our cities is the MLK who can be conveniently used to prop up the status quo. He is the MLK of CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, ignoring the core root of an urban uprising and unable to recognize the intrinsically higher value of black lives over commercial property interests. He is the MLK reduced to “I Have A Dream,” used in conservative political ads to scare-monger about invading, job-stealing Mexican immigrants. He is the almost wholly fabricated MLK whom the modern GOP claims would today be one of their own, presumably standing alongside them as they vote against the poor, women and people of color at every opportunity.

Source: ‘A Riot Is the Language of the Unheard’: 9 MLK Quotes the Mainstream Media Won’t Cite | Alternet

Those critics all I can say to them as it must be lovely looking down on so many people that you have NO idea what they are going through.

Quote Of The Day

I truly hope all had a great weekend and are ready for the week ahead….so much stuff…so little time……

One of my favorite quotes is “Stupidity Is The Deliberate Cultivation Of Ignorance”…..not sure who is credited with it…but it is a very good quote.

MLK had one along the same lines……(see below)…..

 

AMEN!

There is too much of both these days….and Americans are embracing their ignorance and their stupidity as if it were a badge of honor.

So sad!

Martin Luther King And Bernie

We have celebrated the birthday of MLK, Jr and I need to pass on something for my African-American brethren……

Let’s start with Bernie……he is showing great amount of support, even in the Deep South, Alabama to be exact, and that shocked even me…..I would have bet that a progressive like Bernie would be hard pressed to find many supporters….why?  Easy His opponents both Repub and Dem are making sure that the public knows that he is a Democratic Socialist (how long before they use the hammer and sickle against him?)…..and that brand use to be the kiss of death in the Deep South…..but today people are looking for answers to their problems and it appears that Bernie , at least for the Dems, may have the answers that all search for……

Sorry for the digression from the man that we celebrate this week…..but I needed to set the stage for the remainder of this post……

Fifty years ago the man that we celebrate for his civil rights activism was a Democratic Socialist (maybe not in name but his solutions and proposals were)….the same basic beliefs of Bernie Sanders…..real solutions for pressing social problems…..

In holding these views, King followed in the footsteps of many prominent, influential Americans whose views and activism changed the country for the better.

Source: Martin Luther King Was a Democratic Socialist | Alternet

If you believe in the ideals of Martin Luther King then you believe in the candidate for 2016 that offers the same solutions to the problems that MLK saw and tried to solve…..

Time to “Feel The Bern”!

War on Dr. King

Back in the days of the civil rights movement there was No one more central than Martin Luther King….and during this time the FBI  lead by the cross dresser, J. edgar Hoover,  spent many hours trying to discredit everything Dr. King tried to accomplish….they tried labeling him a Communist…..as a serial adulterer……and any other dirty trick they could think of at the time…….

A recent discovery may have been one of the dirtiest……

In 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. received an anonymous letter assailing him as an “evil” fraud and threatening to reveal all kinds of sordid details about his personal life. Unless: “There is only one thing left for you to do,” it concludes. “You know what it is.” As Yale professor Beverly Gage explains in the New York Times, King read the letter and concluded that it could only have come from the FBI and that it was J. Edgar Hoover’s way of getting him to kill himself. Historians have long known about the so-called “suicide letter,” but Gage has discovered an unredacted version in Hoover’s files in the National Archives, and the Times has published it here. (Though the newspaper redacts the name of a woman the letter writer calls one of his “evil playmates.”)

The letter also makes reference to an “enclosure” and says King should listen to it, suggesting that it could be an audio recording related to one of his affairs. Gage writes that Hoover isn’t the author—instead one of his deputies, William Sullivan, “apparently took it upon himself” to write it. For the record, the letter never explicitly says King should commit suicide, and some historians think the intent was to get him to step aside as a civil rights leader, not kill himself.

Character assassination is what we Americans do when we a confronted by someone that does not fit our little range of acceptable…..and the FBI does it better than most.

Dr, Kong basically flip-off the letter and as they say….the rest is history.

As We Celebrate MLK Day… Tomorrow’s Anniversary of Citizen’s United Reminds Us of Increasing Injustice | Alternet

So much has happened since MLK, Jr was killed…..unfortunately, not much of it has been for the best…..at what point do we stop talking about his legacy and do the right thing….like make his hopes come true?

As We Celebrate MLK Day… Tomorrow’s Anniversary of Citizen’s United Reminds Us of Increasing Injustice | Alternet.

How Federal Judges Use and Abuse the Words of Martin Luther King Jr. in Their Decisions | Alternet

Today we celebrate MLK, Jr’s birthday……and his legacy is under attack from both Left and Right….I believe he would be appalled at the lack of progress towards his ideals……some successes but look at what it has gotten……all the rights he fought for are under constant attack for reform…..

How Federal Judges Use and Abuse the Words of Martin Luther King Jr. in Their Decisions | Alternet.