He was right too.

Dr King was correct in far too many ways.

OBAMA PROVES WHITES
NOT AS PREJUDICED AS WE THOUGHT !

By Greg Jones
(originally written/released March 24, 2008)

[Mod Note: Since it has been posted as a Diary, there is no need to repeat it multiple times in comments. A link to the Diary is quite sufficient. Thank You]

He was too influential. He talked too much. The powers that be that he was talking about took him out…just like they always do.

He was also interested in economic equality in a way that was tremendously threatening. And King’s view of equality was inclusive in a way that many who have followed him have great difficulty with.

Full length audio clips:

I’ve Been to the Mountaintop

Beyond Viet Nam

Drum Major Instinct You’ll have to record this from Real Player as it plays

I am related to MLK through his wife Coretta Scott King whose family roots are in Alabama. My mom and Coretta had grandparents in common. I remember seeing Coretta at all of our family reunions in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. I am saddened today by some of the comments that have been made about Obama and Dr. King on some web sites I’ve visited. Some people feel that Obama and Dr. King are/were not sincere in serving the interests of all Americans. Is it just that some people hate so deeply based on a person’s race, or are they just rotten to begin with?

AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…

Citizen Phoenix Woman and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:

…and THAT, dear Sister Phoenix, is why Martin King was killed. He was killed because he was a drum major for peace…he was killed because he was a drum major of economic justice and an integrated union movement…he was killed because he was a drum major with a trumpet section that was threatenin’ ta crumble the walls of Jerico around American wealth, power and freedom.

Put all the heroes of the people over the last 75 years together and you have one common thread of ideas runnin between them: social and economic justice, anti-fascism and belief in peace over war. The fascists have been right for the last 100 years, the common thread among Americans is SOCIALISM.

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, THE WAR IS NOW IN OUR YARD!!

His opposition to the war disturbed TPTB more than the puch for equality.
TPTB know that they can maintain economic supremacy – there is always another scapegoat to sic the undeclasses on.

I have to work tomorrow, but I’m going to see if I can get management to turn on the tv in the conference room so that we can witness something that is so unique – so incredibly ’special’ (I hate using that word because it has taken on so many negative connotations as in ‘Well, isn’t THAT special’)that I feel that it almost rates a moment of complete silence everywhere in the United States: The swearing in, as the elected president of the United States, a black person…someone who did not come from a political family or a family of privilege…someone who organized and won election from the ground up. Any one of these events would be cause for celebration and wonderment. Any one of these events would be cause for discussion and examination. Any one…but all of them…and despite the RNC and the GOP’s best efforts (OK, given that those ‘best efforts’ would rate a C- if graded, but still)in certain states to stop people from voting, to stop the machinery of recording from collecting true information, to stop people from being registered, to appeal to the absolute worst in people, to win this election at all costs (and they are still, in the Coleman/Franken recount, trying to prevent the Democratic winner from being seated). Jonathan Turley refers to something called ‘a transformative moment’ – no s**t, Jonathan.

I think that there are some people that have a lot of anger and hate that becomes focused on a convenient target. We see hatred against people because of race, sexual orientation, national origin, or party affiliation. it is pathetic.
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So this is how the Drum Major Institute came to be named.
Thank you PW

Yup…and it goes on and on…

Folks, Digg is open and there are 5 Diggs there — this deserves NOT 5 – but at least 25 — Digg and give those wonderful little + Diggs as well.

One of the things I find hopeful, in the run-up to the inauguration, is the emerging theme of “perfecting” (note the present “progressive” tense!) our Union.” In other words, instead of arguing to “restore” the Constitution, Obama will be arguing to “perfect” (accent on the second syllable) it.

This theme is already suggested by the civil rights movement: the founding fathers did not conceive of equality of the races, even though they talked about equality. It took Abe Lincoln to “perfect” the vision of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

One of the things I like about it is the way it offers of dealing with the Bush & Cheney legacy: it does not require that they be frog-marched off to a dungeon somewhere (although that could happen). What can be done is to make the Bush-Cheney legacy seem suddenly so tawdry and primitive that their unconstitutional behavior will come to be seen by the majority as shameful and odious. Of course, it already seems shameful and odious to us– but not (yet) to the majority.

The more shameful and odious their unconstitutional depredations can be shown to be, the more difficult it will be for future fascists-in-arms to use the same tools to realize the Orwellian vision in an enduring way. Their way will become impossible, not because their leaders have been sufficiently punished, but because (as song I know has put it) We Have Another World in View– a vision so much more exalted than the tawdry fascist visions of Grover Norquist and the Neocons that it is Grover’s vision that will be drowned in a rising tide of a more perfect (Constitutional) Union.

Bob in HI

A bit of both, I think. We need to educate people about race and many others things that would make such a difference. Some people just need someone to look down on because they don’t want to be on the bottom themselves….always been that way. Maybe it won’t always be that way and the election of Obama will open a lot of eyes….yes, it will.

MLK is not of my specialties. Allow me to be the first to plead ignorance. I have never seen this Drum Major speech until now. I am duly impressed. Thanks for posting it.

I hope Norske and SD, as well as all the rest of you can stick around for a while, we might have a visitor.

DW

No one is born that way…they’ve been carefully taught, and although there is a lot less of it now…it is still alive and well…unfortunately. It is a dangerous world controlled by people that think it is their duty to keep things the same. Those very same people BTW, don’t care what color you are…just look at who they possibly “removed”….JFK, MLK, RFK, Malcolm X, Wellstone, Casey, JFK, Jr….maybe even that guy, O’Donnell who was going to testify about the WH communications a couple of weeks ago…

No tin foil required…

In the 1960s, there was a U.S. Air Force intelligence unit in Montgomery, Alabama, and it’s probably still in existence today. It’s the same unit that George W. Bush was assigned to and was AWOL from years later.

Records and testimony have shown that this intelligence unit had plain-clothes (undercover) observers in Memphis during the Memphis sanitation worker strike, ostensibly to assess the danger of civil unrest, which in itself would have been illegal under Posse Comitatus.

It’s really not a jump at all to calculate that this unit knew of a plot/s to kill Martin Luther King. Perhaps James Earl Ray’s mysterious “handler” (if there actually was one) was from this Montgomery unit. This situation would be equivalent to that of the various federal intelligence operatives clandestinely performing supportive roles in Dallas at the time of the JFK assassination, which has been proven many times over.

Just sayin’…….

I found an mp3 download of Drum Major Instinct Scroll down, you’ll see it. Old fashioned file presentation.

I’m gonna be in and out while I get the boxes cleaned and tigers fed.

No worries, SD.

;~)

Citizen DWBartoo:

I gotta go get the wife a salad fer dinner…I will be gone 15 minutes…am I gunna need ta stay (Mrs. Norske ken wait fer her salad)?

Kevin Martin’s resignation was delivered today, and will be effective on January 20th. Martin first plan of action is joining The Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C. He will be a Senior Fellow.

It has been rumored that President-elect Barack Obama will nominate Julius Genachowski, who was Obama’s Technology Advisor, to head up the FCC.

Who? Grayson?

No , just check back when you’ve time, like to have you meet a wee stingie thingie. But he may have tired, by now, Norske.

;~D

Wow – that speech gave me goosebumps just reading it.

Why are we still armed to the teeth with nuclear bombs always ready to launch?

He’s not tired – just an endless supply of bile.

Hi, DW

‘Evenin’ Twain;

He seems to take these ‘breaks’ and then comes back, bile-raised and fuming … like I say, I think we’re growin’ on him.

SOme of his/her stuff is so stupid it’s funny. Straight out of the rethug talking points.
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Growing on him like a wart, maybe? I can live with that. :)

Congressional Military Industrial Complex…… that is the reason and the answer…

The one about the sun going out was legendarily priceless.

We are witness to a true master in TC.

If we ever wanted a pet trolleranter, then this would be the one, tireless, vitrol-filled to the point of caricature; a poster ‘child’ of the over-the top ‘mindset’ beyond compare. Only the ‘professional’ mouthpiece could top this seven-ring circus of careening calamity.

OMG….. Bush pardoned the border patrol guys who murdered the immigrant in Texas….Just released on local news….

I think it was actually a commuted sentence, but horrific nonetheless.
FunnyD

Oh, bty DW, SD and Norske:
Our new pet appears to have skipped to the Libby thread.

XXOO
FunnyD

that’s “btw”
duh
FunnyD

Ian’s topside.

They didn’t murder anyone just shot him in the butt with buckshot. Very next day the guy was running drugs again.
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Yep. Everyone knows that the Death Star will prevail and try to destroy our sun but Princess Leia will save us at the last minute.

Sorry if I sound noodgie, but are you saying it’s our fate to be unable to abolish them (the weapons and/or the CoMICx)?

your right…The Dobbs isn’t going to be fit to live with…..

Here is the article on their sentencing
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/n…..E_ID=52545
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Ike tried to warn us…… ask anyone….. try and cut the defense budget and stay in congress……

Was fit to be lived with before?!!
FunnyD

Martin Luther King-The fatal shot came from a different direction.

http://whatreallyhappened.com/…..ooked.html

Not really but he will be worse now…… he will take all the credit

Talking points for Israel on the Gaza situation

http://standwithuscampus.com/?p=288

The Immigrant Absorption Ministry announced on Sunday it was setting up an “army of bloggers,” to be made up of Israelis who speak a second language, to represent Israel in “anti-Zionist blogs” in English, French, Spanish and German.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1056648.html

Maybe Ike was apologizing for allowing it to get out of control, and also saying oopsie for lying about Francis Gary Powers (who maybe got thrown under a streetcar it was so long ago). He was a disingenuous POTUS and a great man. Okay, but I’d be in favor of increasing the defense budget if it also abolishes the nukes. Would they be happy then? On the Octopus’s other hand, a nuclear arsenal keeps the budget as small as possible?

standwithuscampus had a feedback button…haha..unintended consequences..
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http://standwithuscampus.userv…..type=popin

Did we make the list?!? Huh, huh, did we?!?

Possibly. I expect GlennGreenwald is at the top of the list, though.
FunnyD

My guess is hmmm…maybe. Some of what has come from trolls in the past week is word for word from standwithus.
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8. Israelis only have 15 seconds to run into bomb shelters once a rocket is fired by Hamas.

10. Hamas openly admits to using civilians as human shields.

11. How would the US react to a missile attack on its citizens coming from Canada or Mexico

http://standwithuscampus.com/?p=288

Thanks for bringing up the sermon and ‘the rest of the story’ on King’s multifaceted fight. I think keeping some of this in the can keeps people from coming to their own conclusions. (Another great insight into King is “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”.)

I personally refer to our shadow government as the military-industrial-congressional-corporate-intelligence-financial complex. Necessary to understand how extensive, powerful, well financed and hidden it is.

Our local Air America Host had Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Cay Johnston on this morning.” In Mother Jones’ Jan/Feb 2009 cover story, he offers a 14-part prescription for getting the economy back on its feet. As a tax reporter for the New York Times, he spent more than a decade documenting “the myriad ways in which our economy has been recalibrated to take from the poor, the middle class, and even the affluent and give to large corporations and the very richest of the rich.”

Johston’s mind blowing stats: Your taxes from Jan to May go to paying interest on the debt – about 70% of it added by Reagan/Bush. The next period, about the same amount of time, goes to pay our millitary bill. All the ‘entitlements’ are the last 2 months of taxes.

So we need to be sure Obama’s economic team is getting the 14 part prescription for recalibrating the economy to take back from the large corps and the very rich. Maybe we could get it into the Constitution as an amendment…

T minus 16 hours and 4 minutes.

Oh Happy Day

Yeah, thanks for that MIC warning as you’re going out the door, Ike. What courage.

Ike had 8 full years to work to bring the Pentagon under his thumb, and had the enormous public support to probably make some good progress in that direction. But what did he do all that time? Mostly left his major FP decisions to his Sec’y of State and Director of CIA, which latter agency got wildly powerful and out of control during his presidency. Ike had other priorities — often involving a round of golf …

As for MLK, I’m aware of his fine Drum Major speech, though as the diarist indicates, almost everything about Dr King these days gets the heavy, feel-good I Have A Dream treatment in the MSM and the controversial other stuff goes unmentioned or is footnoted only. Our blowdried and overexposed establishment historians — Doris Kearns Goodwin et al — almost always willingly go along with the freeze-out of King’s courageous stance on VN, something which greatly irritated both the corp media of that day as well as Pres Lyndon Johnson. His top aide, Bill Moyers, advised him at the time (spring 67) to go on a PR offensive to explain his fine VN policy, which, Moyers assured him, would play well with the majority (later to be called The Silent Majority) if only Lyndon would lay it out clearly and forcefully.

LBJ was also greatly upset about Dr King’s planned Poor People’s March on Washington, planned for summer ‘68. Paranoid Lyndon saw the upcoming mass assembly of poor people in the nation’s capital as a real and direct threat to his presidency. Hmm …

And then there was racist J Edgar and his virulent hatred of King.

MLK was indeed a major threat to TPTB …

I don’t hafta be on top of the heap and TC troll is givin’ everybody a little practice today.

Wish they had a little more depth to ‘em, though. *g*

The Aspen Institute is non-partisan?

For the first time, Martin Luther King’s entire FBI file is now online – all 16,659 pages, posted by The Memory Hole.

CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE INTERNET ARCHIVE PAGE CONTAINING THE FILE

The FBI’s Freedom of Information Act office elected not to post the entire file to its website; instead, they’ve posted only the first 201 pages here.

For a long time, if you wanted to view the whole thing, you had to pay the FBI FOIA office over $1,600 (10 cents/page) to get a paper copy, which isn’t a very convenient format for a huge file, or you had to go to a library that had it on microform, or you could view it in the reading room at FBI HQ in Washington, DC. Now you can get it online in PDF format. The FBI has divided MLK’s file into 121 sections, and they’ve made an Acrobat file for each section. But as mentioned above, they’ve posted only the first two sections to their site. The Memory Hole has put all 121 PDF files into a dozen zip files and posted them here.

http://www.thememoryhole.org/2008/09/fbi_mlk_file/

My apologies..as soon as I hit submit, I noticed all of those capitals…sorry…

True.