40 years ago today - The Rev'd Martin Luthor King jr.

MrBishop · 04-04-2008, 09:34 AM

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories...i_193517.shtml

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The death of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. 40 years ago changed many things -- ironically, most all for the good, despite the killer's evil intent.

The assassin thought he was getting rid of King and his message of racial equality. But King turned out to be even more powerful in death than in life. His life and his legacy are more prominent today than on the evening he was assassinated in Memphis 40 years ago today.

King's death brought to the forefront the need for our nation to change its ways of dealing with people of different colors.

He may have been a black Moses, attempting to lead his people to the promised land, but King did then and does now inspire people of all races to seek equality and to look to the content of other people's character, not the color of their skin.

Young people today look back to the 1960s and see, in the weathered images of our most turbulent decade since the Civil War, a messenger of peace. But at the time, King was regarded among much of the power establishment as a threat, particularly after he turned his sights on the unpopular Vietnam War -- despite preaching endlessly from the book of nonviolent change.

Yet, if he was a threat to the order, then perhaps it is because the order at the time was wrong -- wrong in every way, in separating people by race.

But whoever killed Martin Luther King, for whatever twisted motivation, could not have known how his death would galvanize the civil rights movement -- and only make it more diverse.

His dream has yet to be fully realized, but how far we've come since then. Today, purveyors of racism are dealt with sharply by a government that takes seriously its laws against discrimination -- that is, if the ever-watchful free market doesn't get to the perpetrators first.

And a few years back, this country helped lead an international rebuke of apartheid in South Africa -- and brought that system down as well.

So much has changed since that awful day 40 years ago. Martin Luther King is only stronger.

And, as a result, so is our nation.

Lief Erikson · 04-04-2008, 11:33 AM

A great commentary

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Insidious Rex · 04-04-2008, 01:23 PM

Early morning... April 4...
Shot rings out in the Memphis skY...
Free at last!
They took your life
They could not take your pride

**Mari** · 04-04-2008, 01:42 PM

The comments under the article are also interesting...
Thanks for posting Mr. Bishop. I don't believe we've met?

GrayMouser · 04-04-2008, 11:19 PM

"We've committed more war crimes almost than any nation in the world, and I'm going to continue to say it. And we won't stop it because of our pride and our arrogance as a nation. But God has a way of even putting nations in their place." King then predicted this response from the Almighty: "And if you don't stop your reckless course, I'll rise up and break the backbone of your power." "

Good thing MLK isn't around today- Obama would have to be apologising for him.

hectorberlioz · 04-05-2008, 11:31 AM

If anyone here hasn't read his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" I truly recommend it. I read that a few semesters ago for my first politics class, and wrote a paper on it.

Lief Erikson · 04-05-2008, 11:38 AM

Yes, I strongly believe that the Letter from the Birmingham Jail was inspired by the Holy Spirit. Not on a par with scripture, obviously, but it is incredible.

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Originally Posted by GrayMouser

"We've committed more war crimes almost than any nation in the world, and I'm going to continue to say it. And we won't stop it because of our pride and our arrogance as a nation. But God has a way of even putting nations in their place." King then predicted this response from the Almighty: "And if you don't stop your reckless course, I'll rise up and break the backbone of your power." "

Good thing MLK isn't around today- Obama would have to be apologising for him.

Lol! That's great

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Butterbeer · 04-05-2008, 12:42 PM

I somehow think Obama might shie away from that apology...

..

So - who was the greater man - MLK or the Assasin?

Historically?

hectorberlioz · 04-05-2008, 12:46 PM

Obviously MLK....even if he hadn't been assassinated, his work would still have changed America's laws. Perhaps the assassin speeded that up, but who knows. In any case, he (the assassin) accomplished the opposite of what he intended.

The Gaffer · 04-05-2008, 08:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GrayMouser

"We've committed more war crimes almost than any nation in the world, and I'm going to continue to say it. And we won't stop it because of our pride and our arrogance as a nation. But God has a way of even putting nations in their place." King then predicted this response from the Almighty: "And if you don't stop your reckless course, I'll rise up and break the backbone of your power." "

Good thing MLK isn't around today- Obama would have to be apologising for him.

Well spotted sir, you get your case o beer for that one.

hectorberlioz · 04-05-2008, 08:20 PM

Jeremiah Wright is not in the vein of MLK jr. He is in the vein of pre-Egypt-trip Malcolm X, and Louis Farrakhan.

04-04-2008, 11:33 AM	#2
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	A great commentary . __________________ If the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. ~Oscar Wilde, written from prison Oscar Wilde's last words: "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do."

04-04-2008, 01:23 PM	#3
Insidious Rex Quasi Evil Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Maryland, US Posts: 4,634	Early morning... April 4... Shot rings out in the Memphis skY... Free at last! They took your life They could not take your pride __________________ "People's political beliefs don't stem from the factual information they've acquired. Far more the facts people choose to believe are the product of their political beliefs." "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

04-04-2008, 01:42 PM	#4
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	The comments under the article are also interesting... Thanks for posting Mr. Bishop. I don't believe we've met? __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

04-04-2008, 11:19 PM	#5
GrayMouser Elf Lord Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Ilha Formosa Posts: 2,068	"We've committed more war crimes almost than any nation in the world, and I'm going to continue to say it. And we won't stop it because of our pride and our arrogance as a nation. But God has a way of even putting nations in their place." King then predicted this response from the Almighty: "And if you don't stop your reckless course, I'll rise up and break the backbone of your power." " Good thing MLK isn't around today- Obama would have to be apologising for him. __________________ Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat us as equals."- Winston Churchill

04-05-2008, 11:31 AM	#6
hectorberlioz Master of Orchestration President Emeritus of Entmoot 2004-2008 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Lost in the Opera House Posts: 9,328	If anyone here hasn't read his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" I truly recommend it. I read that a few semesters ago for my first politics class, and wrote a paper on it. __________________ ACALEWIA- President of Entmoot hectorberlioz- Vice President of Entmoot Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life! Join the discussion at Entmoot Election 2010. "Stupidissimo!"~Toscanini The Da CINDY Code The Epic Poem Of The Balrog of Entmoot: Here ~NEW! ~ Thinking of summer vacation? AboutNewJersey.com - NJ Travel & Tourism Guide

04-05-2008, 12:42 PM	#8
Butterbeer Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: here and there Posts: 3,514	I somehow think Obama might shie away from that apology... .. So - who was the greater man - MLK or the Assasin? Historically?

04-05-2008, 12:46 PM	#9
hectorberlioz Master of Orchestration President Emeritus of Entmoot 2004-2008 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Lost in the Opera House Posts: 9,328	Obviously MLK....even if he hadn't been assassinated, his work would still have changed America's laws. Perhaps the assassin speeded that up, but who knows. In any case, he (the assassin) accomplished the opposite of what he intended. __________________ ACALEWIA- President of Entmoot hectorberlioz- Vice President of Entmoot Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life! Join the discussion at Entmoot Election 2010. "Stupidissimo!"~Toscanini The Da CINDY Code The Epic Poem Of The Balrog of Entmoot: Here ~NEW! ~ Thinking of summer vacation? AboutNewJersey.com - NJ Travel & Tourism Guide

04-05-2008, 08:20 PM	#11
hectorberlioz Master of Orchestration President Emeritus of Entmoot 2004-2008 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Lost in the Opera House Posts: 9,328	Jeremiah Wright is not in the vein of MLK jr. He is in the vein of pre-Egypt-trip Malcolm X, and Louis Farrakhan. __________________ ACALEWIA- President of Entmoot hectorberlioz- Vice President of Entmoot Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life! Join the discussion at Entmoot Election 2010. "Stupidissimo!"~Toscanini The Da CINDY Code The Epic Poem Of The Balrog of Entmoot: Here ~NEW! ~ Thinking of summer vacation? AboutNewJersey.com - NJ Travel & Tourism Guide

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