Long time ago but to keep perspective of how recent it was, my mom was born a year earlier. A lot has changed since then, so this is a signature and landmark moment in American history.

(08-28-2023 12:35 PM)C2__ Wrote:  Long time ago but to keep perspective of how recent it was, my mom was born a year earlier. A lot has changed since then, so this is a signature and landmark moment in American history.

Yes. A lot has changed since then.

If MLK said many of those same things today, he'd be accused of being an Uncle Tom and a hater of his own race on MSNBC.

For true-crime buffs like me, today is also notable as the 60th anniversary of the “Career Girls Murders” in New York City (Upper East Side). Mostly forgotten now, but easily New York’s biggest tabloid crime-story of the ’60s. It’s just incredible to go back and read the details of the case now. Many books, films/tv shows, etc., have been based on this.

A innocent man who was (at first) falsely arrested and charged with the crimes was actually watching the March on Washington on television while the murders took place. The true perp was identified later by a drug dealer seeking immunity for his own crimes.

It's amazing how it changed so quick. That it did change so quick is probably why a lot don't think it did change.

https://allpoetry.com/poem/17345487-The-...anMitchell

I wrote this 15 years ago.

(08-28-2023 05:28 PM)Bronco14 Wrote:  It's amazing how it changed so quick. That it did change so quick is probably why a lot don't think it did change.

The 60's and the 70's were like night and day.

Democrats say martin Luther King, jr. was wrong. Democrats, modern so-called 'progressives', so-called 'socialists' and communists and Marxists are the only ones who insist daily on humans being judged only on the color of their skin never by the content of their character. Democrats will kill the idea of freedom of speech and Dreams of freedom with their Democratic fascist tyranny. Our Constitutional Representative Republic, in other words, our Republican government of the people, by the people and for the people never was intended for Democratic Party stupidity and lies. Liberty and freedom is yours--if you can keep it. Democrats lie and enslave, never advancing freedom, Democrats always advance tyranny, totalitarianism and inhuman nothingness. democrats are to be ignored, their ideas and lies to be exposed, and the poor rise up against the tyranny of the Democratic Party and strike it down to the ash heap of history again.

(08-28-2023 10:58 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  Democrats say martin Luther King, jr. was wrong. Democrats, modern so-called 'progressives', so-called 'socialists' and communists and Marxists are the only ones who insist daily on humans being judged only on the color of their skin never by the content of their character. Democrats will kill the idea of freedom of speech and Dreams of freedom with their Democratic fascist tyranny. Our Constitutional Representative Republic, in other words, our Republican government of the people, by the people and for the people never was intended for Democratic Party stupidity and lies. Liberty and freedom is yours--if you can keep it. Democrats lie and enslave, never advancing freedom, Democrats always advance tyranny, totalitarianism and inhuman nothingness. democrats are to be ignored, their ideas and lies to be exposed, and the poor rise up against the tyranny of the Democratic Party and strike it down to the ash heap of history again.

Dr. King was approached by China to offer money to his movement. It prompted a Hoover investigation. Dr. King told them to take a hike. He was killed.

Malcom X returned from his haj to Mecca a changed man, saw no point in race based or race baiting politics as Muslim brothers were of all races. He was killed.

Bobby Seales got the Maoist backing to spread racial divide. His legacy the BLM movement is simply the Black Panthers reborn.

Dr. King is an American hero, but because he is one because he used nonviolent civil disobedience, as he learned by studying Gandhi, to make the public's awareness and shame over sin become the catalyst for change. Change through recognition and repentance.

It would still work today if the progressives in public education didn't dismiss the notion of God, and sin, and make everything about possessions, which of course was the third Temptation of Christ. The second was to use a public display of Gods power (recognition and acclaim) to force belief instead of choice. And the first was to change to physical world through the misuse of power to feed physical hunger with spiritual power, stones to bread. All sought to offer physical things unnatural feeding of one's appetite, public displays of power, and treasure in exchange for what should never be taken from any of us, our sense of personal integrity and faith.

Progressives have no faith in God. They do not believe in mortal sin since the ends always justify the means, and they thrive on the intimidation of public displays of power, and that is why they should be recognized as disciples of the one who would ask for all that.