Has Dr. King's Dream Been Achieved?

January 17th, 2011   (768 views )

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama honored the legacy of
Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday by participating in a painting
project at a school on Capitol Hill.
On the federal holiday named for the slain civil rights leader,
Obama brought his family to Stuart Hobson Middle School, where he
and first lady Michelle Obama helped paint apple characters on
pillars in the lunchroom to encourage healthier eating.
Obama said King's legacy is also about service and urged
Americans to get out into their communities on Monday - a step he
suggested would have special meaning following the shooting rampage
in Tucson, Ariz.
"After a painful week where so many of us were focused on the
tragedy, it's good for us to remind ourselves of what this country
is all about," he told reporters.
Monday also happened to be Michelle Obama's 47th birthday. To
mark it, the crowd at the school sang the Stevie Wonder version of
"Happy Birthday," which the musician wrote to honor King.

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Comment from: Gail [Visitor] Email
In King's day wasn't it the black versus the white, and the blacks were discriminated in everything from jobs to housing to sitting on the bus to drinking at the water fountain to whatever.

TODAY, AND RECENTLY, IT IS A WHOLE NEW WORLD! FOLLOW THE MONEY! The jobs were sent out of the country to get lower priced products, the immigrants invaded, and today white and black are thrown out of work, homes foreclosed and both not able to buy the flood of products because there is none or less of a demand in the United States because there is no money.

LIKEWISE JUST RECENTLY in Tunisia the FOOD GOT SO HIGH, ALL THE PEOPLE STARTED RIOTING, AND THE PRESIDENT WENT TO SAUDI ARABIA. ETHANOL USED SO MUCH OF THE AGRICULTURAL CROP THAT THE REMAINING PRICES FOR THE FOOD SUCH AS CORN, ETC., CLIMBED, AND NOW IT HAS BEEN DISCCOVERED THAT ETHANOL MAY NOT BE AS GOOD AS ORIGINALLY THOUGHT, EVEN THOUGH THE INFRASTRUCTURE AND LOTS OF PEOPLE ARE EMPLOYED IN ETHANOL INDUSTRY.

AND, THIS EFFECT IT IS STARTING TO MAKE ITS WAY AROUND THE GLOBE--THAT IS, WHAT HAPPENS IN AFERICA DOESN'T STAY IN AFRICA. THE DOLLAR IS COLLAPSING.

On 8/15/1971 Nixon went off the gold standard in two stages.

In 1933 Roosevelt took the United States off the gold standard domestically in order to keep trading with a foreign country which had to keep the gold standard of $21.67 for an ounce of gold. IF YOU WERE AN AMERICAN CITIZEN, IT WAS ILLEGAL FOR YOU TO OWN GOLD. THEY NEEDED TO PRINT MONEY IN A DEFLATION ECONOMY, LIKEWISE TODAY THE PRINTED MONEY IS BEING SUCKED INTO ALL THIS DEBT OF $14 TRILLION.

THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS INFLATION TO KEEP THE SYSTEM GOING--IT WANTS TO PROP UP PRICES EVEN THOUGH THERE ISN'T ANY MONEY OR DEMAND TO SUPPORT IT. ADAM SMITH AND THE INVISIBLE HAND. JOBS CAN'T BE CREATED BECAUSE THERE IS NO DEMAND FOR PRODUCTS. So there is DEFLATION--everybody is waiting to see if prices drop for lack of demand. The credit isn't available to get higher prices.



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Comment from: Mike Q [Visitor] Email
Gandhi abd MLK each transformed nations and the structure of societies. Each faced the violence and implacable hatred of the reactionary elements that so cruelly dominated the cultures they were born into. In both cases racism informed the policies and actions of the white rulers that had brought about their dominance of peaceable peoples by invasion.

And you know what? Against every belief system of the two white conservative forces, the moral superiority of andhi and MLK's non-violent resistance won the day, to the amazement of the brutes armed with guns and axe-handles.

A British officer in India barred the exit of a stadium and had his men machine-gun to death over a thousand men, women and children, and wound nearly everyone else. This was the extremism of reactionary fathers and husbands and brothers and sons defending their view of the natural order of things,-a steep hierarchy with Christian whites at the top trying to make good on the responsibilities of their "white man's burden" and paternalistically guide the dark savages to a better life. That was their story anyway.

America's reactionary fathers and husbands and brothers and sons had to be satisfied with merely burning to death some little black girls in a church, and other such helpful lessons. Oh well, maybe this will change when those heavily-armed militias we have all over the landscape actually start doing something.

A Gandhi or a Martin Luther King comes along only rarely in this world. And as soon as they pass, the brutes come back, but hopefully with less confidence. Progress toward social justice is always glacially slow, but it does come.
PermalinkPermalink 01/17/11 @ 14:11
Comment from: Gail [Visitor] Email
p.S. In King's day wasn't it the black versus the white, and the blacks were discriminated in everything from jobs to housing to sitting on the bus to drinking at the water fountain to whatever.

TODAY, AND RECENTLY, IT IS A WHOLE NEW WORLD! FOLLOW THE MONEY! NOT COLOR!

The jobs were sent out of the country to get lower priced products, the immigrants invaded, and today white and black are thrown out of work, homes foreclosed and both not able to buy the flood of products because there is none or less of a demand in the United States because there is no money.

PermalinkPermalink 01/17/11 @ 14:15
Comment from: Caspian [Visitor] Email · http://www.progressive.org/wx011611.html
U.S. Empire Mocks Martin Luther King Day

http://www.progressive.org/wx011611.html

SPECIAL: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in His Own Words

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/1/17/special_dr_martin_luther_king_jr


Martin Luther King Jr: War As An Enemy of the Poor

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2011/01/16

Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream...to Go to War?!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahI8o9-U7Z0


1968, Forty Years Later: A Look Back at the Orangeburg Massacre When SC Police Opened Fire on Black Students Protesting Segregation

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/3/1968_forty_years_later_a_look

The Complicated History of John McCain and MLK Day

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/04/the-complicated.html

Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence
Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/04/8096/


The Martin Luther King You Don't See on TV

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2269






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Mike Q takes a page from the Colin Ferguson handbook.

Q has a great flair for writing. However his use of prejudicical generalization makes his content laughable.
PermalinkPermalink 01/19/11 @ 06:42
Comment from: Mike G [Visitor] Email
"And if I'm inflamatory, everyone seems to be saying No harm done!"

Because we are on the subject just some food for thought. The more someone puts down an entire group or person without real justification, the more I tend to want to defend that group or person that is being put down.

If for example someone on the right says, "Liberals or Democrats are bad" for some reason, it does not inspire me to believe that but to find out why and defend the left, if those remarks have no basis. If someone insinuates that "white conservatives" or "Christian whites" are bad, it inspires me to defend them because I already know as a whole, that is not the truth.

I think another problem with inflammatory remarks is that most people will tend to ignore any other good stuff and only remember the bad. In the aforementioned post Fred did pay Mike a very honest and good compliment, as a truly talented writer. Yet due to some of the other comments, it naturally went unnoticed.
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