A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war, "This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. -- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
So they killed him.
And I wept when they did.
King had reached a point where he had become a global thinker. He had been to the mountain, all right, and it gave him the perspective he needed to understand the connection between lynching black people in America and napalming brown people in Vietnam.
If you think that President Obomba,– is the heir apparent to Dr. King, then you haven’t got a clue. King didn’t take to the streets and risk his life so that this double-talking, double-crossing corporate pimp could preach global war, and don’t imagine for a second that the good Dr. King would smile with satisfaction that this particular corporate pimp happens to be Black – sort of.
That would be the supreme insult to his memory.
It was “the content of their character” King wanted people to be judged by and not “the color of their skin,” remember?
As for the President’s character, I believe he’s revealed it. He is either an abject coward, or a bullying psychopath – just like his predecessor.
Either way, about the only similarity between King and Obama is in both having two legs.
Except King stood up on his.
sj
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I would hope he would he would be an necessary and alternative voice of counsel for Obama.
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