WWDMLKS?

[shooter1201]

Translation: What would Dr. Martin Luther King say?

<a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=6368112&BRD=2271&PAG=461&dept_id=462946&rfi=6" target="_blank">http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=6368112&BRD=2271&PAG=461&dept_id=462946&rfi=6</a>

[nickg]

he would say "keep hope alive"...oh, wait. that's jesse.

he would probably say "in regards to this violation of tawana brawley"....oh wait, that's al.

he would probably say "and that no good cracker"....oh wait, that's farrakhan.

martin luther king would probably say nothing about it actually. i don't think his ego was anywhere near these guys to care about such a thing.

[FLLawdog]

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[n567]

Perhaps he'd actually be glad a school cares enough about the education of black kids that they would cancel a holiday...

[Sparky]

He'd probably say something like:

"Black parents fought for years for their children to be able to attend schools where all children, of all colors, could learn together so that the ugly blemish of ignorance and racism would whither away under the cleansing light of education and knowledge.

And now, I am almost glad that I am no longer alive to see that some black parents now fight to keep these children divided and that they use my name to perpetuate bigotry and intolerance.

If you do anything in my name, it should be only to be proud and to forgive because the only way that we can escape the past is turn away from it and look towards the future.

The day before I left you all I told you of a demented black woman that had stabbed me in New York and about a little white girl who wrote a letter to me telling me that she was glas that I didn't die.

And I told you that I was not afraid of dying because God had let me up onto the mountian top and allowed me to see that we, as a people, black and white, people of all colors would one day get to that day where we all lived in peace and in freedom.

And I told you that I did not mind that I may not get there to see that day, because I knew it was coming, I told you that I would not mind if I were taken from this earth because I knew that our future as a people was assured.

It was on the very next day that I was killed.

What has happened since then?

Over thirty years have passed. Great progress has been made.

But just as I told you those long years ago in Memphis, we have got to stay together to maintain our unity. Remember what I told you about Pharoh ceating division among the people to keep them from working together.

And remember how I told you that we were there not out of any negative protest, or any negative arguement, but that we were there to be men and to be people.

I am now no longer with you, and I am looking down from the mountian top and I see that, yes, great progress has been made, but I also see that in many ways the promised land is still very far away.

But instead of looking at the past I am looking still towards the future. The promised land is there, if you all can turn around and move forward, instead of looking back at where you have already been."

<small>[ 12-13-2002, 05:03 PM: Message edited by: Sparky ]</small>

[Bill R]

Well I'm upset...Proper respect is not being given to Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Both were honorable Virginians deserving of a day of recognition. Why is there no outcry because they are being snubbed? King was cool too. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

[shooter1201]

I'm siding with n567 and Sparky on this one. I lived through desegregation in Alabama. My grandfather was a superintendent at that time. I saw the pains he took to ensure the black teachers and administrators kept their jobs. Not a very popular fellow with the local 'kluckers'(he kept an S&W .38Spl in his pocket).

ANYway...I think MLK would be highly upset at all the bickering over 'to attend on MLK Day or not'....

[SGT Dave]

He'd side with J. C. Watts and call Al Sharpton and Jesse what they really are-poverty mongers.

Deep down, they want things to STAY heated on the race issue-else they'd be "nobodies".

Anybody who doesn't see this isn't looking. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

[retired]

Personally, I wouldn't care what MLK had to say! I didn't care what he had to say while he was alive, and I don't care now! :)

[Mike Tx]

Maybe James Earl Ray was just a poor shot? He was really aiming at Jessie.