Monday, January 19, 2009

Honoring Martin Luther King

On August 28, 1963 Martin Luther King delivered the "I have a Dream" speech. Finally part of the dream is about to be realized. Every year we have made progress toward reaching the end of that dream. I don't believe we have yet reached total equality. We have come a long way, yet there are those who still would keep the African American down.

We take the time today to honor Dr. King on this his birthday. I am posting the video of his speech here, and on the page you can click through to here is the text and pictures of the march to the Lincoln Memorial, and other links to pages that will give you more information. It is worth a few minutes to look at it and see the wisdom this man had.

There are still those who scoff, still those who mock him, still those who use racial epithets, that's why I say his dream is not fully realized. We still have a ways to go.

In the election we saw something of that, in the numbers of people who wouldn't or didn't admit they were voting for PE Obama and then went to the voting booths and voted for him. Not because they were racist, but because they were afraid to admit they were voting for a black man for fear of someone they knew making fun of them.

So, yes we have a ways to go.

This is Ann Telnaes Cartoon from the Washington Post this morning. It is one of her best ever. It fits right in with today. It is worth looking at. It brought tears to my eyes.

Here is the link to American Rhetoric: Martin Luther King, I Have A Dream

Here is a link to the "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" which was written April 16, 1963. It was thought by some of his followers that he had lost his mind when they got this. Later they realized how profound his words really were.

Here is the video:


I in no way mean to take away from this day of celebration, but to honor it by adding this wonderful video by Dave Stewart. This is his revision which he did to bring in PE Obama as the partial fulfilling of Dr. King's dream. Enjoy this musical tribute to Dr. King and the historic inauguration of PE Obama.

1 comment:

enigma4ever said...

I am so glad that I came here..I have to get to work soon....urgh...( today is market day....) and it's snowing up a storm....they are showing the crowds in DC on MSNBC....wow....stunning and such good energy....

I am so glad that Dave Stewart has redone his video- the version I have with lyrics posted is a bit illegal- it is one of the ones that is involved in some kind of copyright crap...

( 6-6 gave me the scoop apparently NOT all in the video had given permission for it ???idiots...)

I love the new version - and I knew Dave Stewart was working on getting it settled by Election...

MLK must be smiling down...

( about the JT song...It was working fine..I even picked a lower ranked version...BUT I also knew that my blog hits are up...and I was going to get nabbed- over 2500 hits in 12 hours...comments don't always indicate hits....I have a monitoring company that let's me know when I go above a certain number and I can monitor....so once the song's viewing numbers went up...I knew it would be blocked...I still have not yet gotten nailed on the American Prayer song...just a matter of time...)

it turns out the HBO special was NOT free here in cleveland...that is why they didn't advertize it and why I found it by accident on NEON...I will buy it when it is on DVD...but they really have not behaved in the spirit of the Moment..shame on them...

Be back at 11PM....
see you then...

;-)