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Pieces of MLK's Past
Apr 4, 2008 | 7:45 AM
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Who isn't moved when hearing Dr. King speak?  The closest I've come to him (aside from watching videos and hearing his sermons on the radio) was visiting his birthplace in Atlanta (501 Auburn Avenue).  Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church is just a few blocks away. 

It's a magical place, intimate & old.  The first time I walked in, it felt sacred and special.  When I heard people sing, I felt a part of things, a part of history. 

It's where Martin Luther King Jr. was baptized as a child.  He was ordained a minister - at the tender age of 18! -  after giving a trial sermon to the congregation at Ebenezer.  I'm sure he was a force to be reckoned with even as a teen.  He became copastor with his father in 1960.

Just eight years later, he was killed and his funeral was held there.

I was lucky enough to cover Coretta Scott King's funeral while I was reporting in Atlanta two years ago.  Thousands of people lined the route from the funeral home to Ebenezer.

Just sharing a few moments with you...Do you have any special moments that relate to him? 

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sebar read my blog view my photos
Apr 4, 2008 | 3:35 PM

Yeah just one moment. Our country is going down the tubes, how's that for a special moment?

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DfDeportation read my blog view my photos
Apr 4, 2008 | 6:35 PM

Memo From Mexico, By Allan Wall
Mexicans Spurn McCain’s Pandering—Prefer Hillary (But They’ll Settle For Obama)
Who do Mexicans want as the next U.S. president?

All three major candidates (John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama) have appalling records on immigration (see here) which must make Mexico’s elite happy. All three have pandered to Hispanics—by, among other things, appearing in the Spanish-language Univision debates. And any of the three can be expected to push for an amnesty.

Nevertheless, of the three, John McCain has pandered more, and longer, and has proven again and again his contempt for US immigration laws. McCain defended the illegal alien marches of 2006. He opposed English Only laws and efforts to assimilate immigrants generally. He also seems fonder of Hispanic culture than traditional American culture: in one speech, he said the U.S. is better off not having a common culture, while in another, to Hispanic congressmen, he said that the Hispanic blood and culture was a "noble cause" that enriched the country. McCains’s Hispanic outreach director, Juan Hernandez, a longtime amnesty agitator, is actually a U.S.-Mexican citizen and a former Mexican cabinet minister!

So by any objective standard, McCain has pandered more to Mexico and Hispanics than either Hillary or Obama.

Then McCain must be very popular in Mexico, right?

Maybe he should be—but he’s not.

A recent poll reported March 21 by El Universal, Mexico’s paper of record, asked which of the three candidates—John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama—would be better f
DfDeportation read my blog view my photos
Apr 4, 2008 | 6:37 PM

niversal, Mexico’s paper of record, asked which of the three candidates—John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama—would be better for Mexico.

The results: Hillary Clinton got 41% of the Mexican vote. Obama was in second place, with 27% of the vote.

And John McCain? He got a whopping 8% of the vote!
craftyguy read my blog
Apr 4, 2008 | 10:29 PM

Dr.King was a great man i remember watching the TV when he was assassinated ..when it was broadcast it was a white man who did it i knew there was going to be riots ..growing up in a town a suburb of Newark N.J.who had race riots the year before..i remember tanks rolling down the streets and curfews..and firemen being shot at and the phrase burn baby burn..at the moment his life was taken so was all he hoped and dreamed of ,,nobody it seemed ever listened to him then his death was just another excuse for hatred ..Dr, Martin Luther King was not some immortal being he was just a man who said a lot of good things and had a lot of hope and yes a dream in humanity its a damn shame he died for nothing ..like the churches use Jesus to sell crosses everybody in media uses Dr. Kings words to promote cheap ratings like christmas the next day nobody gives a damn
statueman read my blog view my photos
Apr 6, 2008 | 4:10 AM

I remember the first time I ever sat and really listened to Martin Luther Kings speech "I have a Dream".

While visiting with a friend I found a record with the speeches of MLK on it. I put it on the turn table and listened to the speech in it's entirety for the first time in my life. I was glad no one else was home that day... Because I remember the sterophonic sing-song of his wonderful voice giving me goose bumps and the power of his message producing involuntary tears.

I think that as humans sometimes when we hear a human voice who's honesty and self sacrifice are evident in the sound of his voice that a sort of communal freedom-based survival instinct kicks in and we suddenly understand what we must do to do our part.
dimitrilw5 read my blog
Apr 6, 2008 | 6:03 PM

YES. I DO. MY MOM HAS A PHOTOGRAPH OF MARTIN LUTHER KING STANDING BETWEEN HER (while six months pregnant with me) AND MY "BIO" FATHER WHO WAS GOOD FRIENDS WITH M.L.K.
ON THE SAME EVENING THAT THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN, A FRIEND OF MY "BIO'S" DROVE MY MOM, MY "BIO" AND MR. KING TO MY MOM'S HOME, WHERE HE SAT ON A SWIVEL EASY CHAIR. WHEN MY SISTER WAS BORN, AND WHEN WE WERE JUST A LITTLE OLDER, MY MOM CONSTANTLY TOLD US NOT TO PLAY WITH THAT CHAIR. WE DIDN'T LISTEN. WE TORE IT UP SO BAD THAT MY MOM HAD TO THROW IT AWAY.
A COUPLE OF DAYS AFTER MARTIN LUTHER KING WAS KILLED (I WAS 6yrs old), MY MOM TOOK OUT THAT BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPH.
dimitrilw5 read my blog
Apr 6, 2008 | 6:06 PM

... continued...

SHE SHOWED ME THE PHOTOGRAPH. I SAID "HEY... THAT'S THE SAME MAN WHO'S PICTURE IS ON THE WALL IN MY CLASSROOM!!!" SHE RESPONDED : THAT'S THE SAME MAN WHO SAT IN THE CHAIR THAT I ASKED YOU AND YOUR SISTER TO PLEASE NOT PLAY IN.

(sigh)!!!
dimitrilw5 read my blog
Apr 6, 2008 | 6:44 PM

P.S.,

SUZANNE,

YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL!!! I JUST DON'T FEEL FAMILIAR WITH YOU ENOUGH TO GET STARTED ON YOU WITH MY CRAZINESS, BUT IN TIME... -SMILE- I WILL.

YOU'RE AN EXCELLENT REPORTER!!!

OH, AND I LOVED THAT SHORT DRESS YOU WORE WHILE ON THE BASEBALL FIELD AT THE HIGH SCHOOL IN RESEDA!!! GREAT PAIR OF LEGS, GAL!!! WOW!!!

OH, SORRY... LOOKS LIKE I'M STARTING ON YOU ALREADY!!! LOL

HEY... YOU DESERVE IT... YOU'RE "H-O-T"!!!
Jay_Kumar read my blog
Apr 6, 2008 | 8:05 PM

"...King's famous denunciation of America's war in Vietnam came exactly a year before his murder, before a crowd of 3,000 in the Riverside Church in Manhattan. He described Vietnam's destruction at the hands of ''deadly Western arrogance,'' insisting that ''we are on the side of the wealthy, and the secure, while we create a hell for the poor We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem." US Army spies secretly recorded black radical Stokely Carmichael warning King, "The Man don't care you call ghettos concentration camps, but when you tell him his war machine is nothing but hired killers you got trouble." Carmichael was right."

http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn04052008.html
o0lux0o read my blog view my photos
Apr 7, 2008 | 1:43 PM

All of Rev. King's speeches are special to me. They really spoke and still speak to me ever since I heard his "I have a dream" speech for the first time. Even though its a bit of a cliche to call him your hero, he's certainly one of mine.
saromchea read my blog view my photos
Apr 8, 2008 | 12:14 AM

YEAH, I REMEMBERED MARTIN L. KING JR 40 YEARS AGO IN MEMPHIS, TN. I WAS WATCH 7 YEARS OLD AT SCHOOL.

I LOVE HISTORY!
Suzanne_Marques read my blog view my photos
Apr 9, 2008 | 5:29 PM

i love all of these little snippets... i wish we had someone - today! - who was so inspiring. i love a visionary, someone so in tune with what is needed at one moment in time... who steps up to the plate to move a generation. MLK passed years ago, yet he still inspires people as if he were alive today.

i'll ignore the off-topic comments, but come on sebar. don't be so grouchy!

optimism folks! :)
o0lux0o read my blog view my photos
Apr 9, 2008 | 7:40 PM

The thing is that there really are people who are inspiring alive today and trying to get heard. Unfortunately they're silenced or ridiculed by the media and so their either ignored or thought to be "crazy" by the masses.

I try to be a little optimistic but as a realist, its hard at this point.
DfDeportation read my blog view my photos
Apr 9, 2008 | 9:37 PM

Suzanne_Marques
Apr 9, 2008 | 4:29 PM i love all of these little snippets... i wish we had someone - today! - who was so inspiring. i love a visionary, someone so in tune with what is needed at one moment in time... who steps up to the plate to move a generation. MLK passed years ago, yet he still inspires people as if he were alive today.

i'll ignore the off-topic comments, but come on sebar. don't be so grouchy!

optimism folks! :)

Yousound like Ahhhnoooode....vee don't want to hear bad news, only good news. Suzanne, you are a typical resident in a FOOLS PARADISE! And you're not a very good reporter either. You're not on FOX for your brains!
snugglesforlife view my photos
Apr 10, 2008 | 6:10 PM

DfDeportation:

You need some more love - preferably more man love!

I love to snuggle you inbetween my imported sheets - it might cure your racist ways!

Suzanne is a great reporter and she's hot... Why do you hate?

now, go back to your barn and tend to your sheep - they are probably the only ones who miss you - or maybe not
DfDeportation read my blog view my photos
Apr 10, 2008 | 8:43 PM

Another citizen in a FOOLS PARADISE!
randythib read my blog view my photos
Apr 14, 2008 | 1:31 AM

i don't think MLK meant food stamps and welfare for self empowerment.
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