Mr. King Feliz Cumpleanos

[Romanowski]

"Today is Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Day. He was born in 1929. Last week, he would have turned 77 years old. In the early 1960s, King focused his challenge on legalized racial discrimination in the South where police dogs and bullwhips and cattle prods were used against Southern blacks seeking the right to vote or to eat at a public lunch counter. After passage of Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, King began challenging the nation's fundamental priorities. He maintained that civil rights laws were empty without "human rights" -- including economic rights.

Noting that a majority of Americans below the poverty line were white, King developed a class perspective. He decried the huge income gaps between rich and poor, and called for "radical changes in the structure of our society" to redistribute wealth and power.

By 1967, King had also become the country's most prominent opponent of the Vietnam War, and a staunch critic of overall U.S. foreign policy, which he deemed militaristic. In his "Beyond Vietnam" speech delivered at New York's Riverside Church on April 4, 1967 -- a year to the day before he was murdered -- King called the United States "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."
Time magazine called the speech "demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi," and the Washington Post declared that King had "diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people." We turn now to that speech that King gave in April 1967."

[Romanowski]

Politics aside, great man

[Will]

Originally Posted by Romanowski

Politics aside, great man

no question

[Blackbeard Pimp]

Yup

[Romanowski]

ok now time for my rant and maybe this gets shifted to POlics forum...who knows

But all I saw today on news networks...was "we want...we want" the majority of speakers for this celebration did not stand for %1 of what "the late dr king: did

Most were Bush bashers, how can they pretend to understand a dead mans perspective?

Lets make one thing clear Jesse "rent-a -riot" Jackson would not exist without racism
in fact last thing he wants is unification and all that biz, he is a divider, while Martin Luther was a uniter. Last thing on earth Jesse wants is what Martin stood for

im out

[The Judge]

Originally Posted by Romanowski

Lets make one thing clear Jesse "rent-a -riot" Jackson would not exist without racism

How does Mr. Jackson make a living?

[Romanowski]

Jesse Jackson is really no better than cheap WHITE southern politicians

Judge....guy would die of hunger without racism,,,no doubt

[Romanowski]

its pretty clear here Judge where I stand