Mlk Day :)

[RSK]

It's MLK day today, and I can't believe I don't see a thread for this.

Well, I'm just gonna have to remedy that, then.

So, what does MLK day mean to you?

[misombra]

it means i'm making collard greens and fried chicken today.

[shh!]

I think MLK's "I have a Dream" speech is one of the most inspirational speeches ever given. What an amazing gift for motivating the masses he had!

[Lloyd95]

It's MLK day today, and I can't believe I don't see a thread for this.

Maybe it means there are no black people here at LF.

[Lloyd95]

it means i'm making collard greens and fried chicken today.

Easy there Fuzzy Zoeller.

[RSK]

I think MLK's "I have a Dream" speech is one of the most inspirational speeches ever given. What an amazing gift for motivating the masses he had!

i agree shh!

i heard of MLK when i took american history in high school. we listened to his speach, and i was SIMPLY AMAZED........



.............[url]http://www.mecca.org/~crights/dream.html[/url]



my favourite part of the speech


I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

[Cybog]

If only he were alive today, imagine how many black people he would be slapping accross the face. Do you think that MLK imagined Rap Music to be as vulgar and obscene as it is, and yet a top music "genre" among the black community?

What do you think MLK would have to say about the amount of blacks in prison?

Imagine what MLK would have to say to bold faced frauds like Jesse Jackson whose only goal is political and personal gain.

What saddens me just as much as the loss of MLK is the loss of his progress and his work. He drempt that "black kids and white kids could hold hands together." Go to a High School in South Central and tell me how close to reality this "dream" has become, and then ask yourself why this is.

[RSK]

If only he were alive today, imagine how many black people he would be slapping accross the face. Do you think that MLK imagined Rap Music to be as vulgar and obscene as it is, and yet a top music "genre" among the black community?

What do you think MLK would have to say about the amount of blacks in prison?

Imagine what MLK would have to say to bold faced frauds like Jesse Jackson whose only goal is political and personal gain.

What saddens me just as much as the loss of MLK is the loss of his progress and his work. He drempt that "black kids and white kids could hold hands together." Go to a High School in South Central and tell me how close to reality this "dream" has become, and then ask yourself why this is.

wow cy, i didn't know you had this in you

the truth is, i think the perception of black people is misunderstood. we see them potrayed as bad people on tv ALL the time...




no matter what you say, we've come a long way as a society...

...back then, it wasn't acceptable for a black person to walk into certain resteraunts, and today, this type of behavior would be HARSHLY condemed, - we have ZERO tollerence for this behavior...



If MLK were alive today, I'm SURE he would continue his work and goal of his 'dream', he was that kind of person...
...we've come a long way, but it's clear there are parts of America that are STILL asleep...........

[Pears]

So, what does MLK day mean to you?

No classes!

[Tone]

I agree with RK, that those are just the typical stereotypes.

If he were alive today I'm sure he would be so very happy to see his dream to have come true.

No classes!

Aren't you just ****in cute?

[Vanilla Gilr]

"we have ZERO tollerence for this behavior..."

That IS a nice dream...and maybe it's true where you live.

Things ARE better than they were...but that doesn't mean that there's not alot more work to be done.

[Tone]

Very true, Vanilla.

But like you said, we have come pretty far.

[funsounds]

read stuff by Tim Wise (a white guy) and Michael Eric Dyson (a black guy)...it gives very interesing perspectives on where blacks are today...

[alice]

tone, i was going to post this in the other thread, but since it's been closed:
never mind about the math – you have got a heart as big as texas, that's what counts.

[Tone]

*blush*

So you still like me even though I got 2 points out of 14 on my first algebra quiz I got back yesterday? (true story)