Turning King’s Dream into a Nightmare

[SHRED]

There is no such thing as racial justice without economic justice.
We need to look no further than the breakneck speed of passage and size of the bank bailouts along with MIC war spending juxtaposed against the snails crawl to a watered down health insurance "reform" bill.

The struggle goes on.

Martin Luther King Day has become a yearly ritual to turn a black radical into a red-white-and-blue icon. It has become a day to celebrate ourselves for “overcoming” racism and “fulfilling” King’s dream. It is a day filled with old sound bites about little black children and little white children that, given the state of America, would enrage King. Most of our great social reformers, once they are dead, are kidnapped by the power elite and turned into harmless props of American glory. King, after all, was not only a socialist but fiercely opposed to American militarism and acutely aware, especially at the end of his life, that racial justice without economic justice was a farce.

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In a speech titled “Beyond Vietnam” he gave at Riverside Church a year before his assassination, King called America the “greatest purveyor of violence in the world today,” a quote that won’t make it into many Martin Luther King Day celebrations. King’s strident denunciation of the Vietnam War and economic injustice at the end of his life saw many white liberals, members of his own staff, as well as allies within the political power structure, turn against him. King and Malcolm, in the final days of their lives, were lonely men.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/turning_kings_dream_into_a_nightmare_20100117/

[niyad]

1. k and r

[Fire1]

2. K&R.

[ProSense]

3. "Martin Luther King Day has become a yearly ritual to turn a black radical"

MLK was a radical?

Ridiculous.

[blondeatlast]

4. I witnessed the civil rights struggle. MLK, Jr. was not a radical.

:banghead:

[DelPotro]

9. He was shifting

He was become radicalized. Very influential forces recognized this. Something had to be done to stop this. Can't have a strong voice preaching the truth to the Homelanders.

[Mari333]

5. knr

MLK would be appalled at the MIC today .

[Spazito]

6. Yet another thread using MLK for political expediency...

Surprise, surprise.

[anonymous171]

8. MLK was a political and moral leader.

[Spazito]

10. Yes he was and your point is...

what? This is the third thread using MLK for political expediency to hit at the Obama administration either directly or indirectly. If one truly wanted to honor MLK they would do it in a manner different than this, imo.

[Individualist]

7. K&R