Dr. King supported oppressed people from all walks of life. I believe that if he were here today, he'd be supporting the plight of the Palestinian people over in the middle east.

He'd quite likely be speaking out about the persecution of the Jews by the worlds congress as well...

You're both right, but more than that, Dr. King would not just be speaking. He'd be taking a hard stand and drawing a line in the sand about oppression. Bernice King also said that before her father was murdered, he getting ready to do a speech about America going to hell if our government didn't change it's foreign and domestic policies towards it's treatment on oppressed people all over the planet. She spoke boldly regarding these issues. I could not caption the title of this article in that fashion. Some of the narrow minded are angry enough about what I said in regards to her challenging Obama. It's all true though. Anyone can pick up the phone and call the SCLC/FOR WOMEN and ask for yourself. She told us all that she is not (ain't) scared to speak what's in her heart because her father taught her that. This is why both her and Cornell West told the crowds when they both spoke, to stop trying to sanitize the legacy of Dr. King. Because he was non-violent does not mean that he was a wimp.

He and Jesus both died for the same reasons. They spoke out and stood up against injustice. The problem today is that, just because some of us do not experience injustice and are not affected by it, they want to act as if it does not exist, and they then get angry when the downtrodden speak out against it. Just because my life may be OK, does not mean that others are not suffering from oppression.

where do I sign up?

I'm a freelance writer. I stand by my story.That's proof. You accuse someone of lying and then call a story "BULLSIT", then get angry at their response to your insults and innuendos, then you have the audacity accuse someone of being childish ? Obviously another newcomer on this site trying to make a name for himself..Once you accuse someone of lying and telling them that that their story is bullshit, the debate is over. That's a personal attack. Learn the rules of engagement before stepping on the playing field.

Call the SCLC/FOR WOMEN and ask Bernice King if I'm lying.

We're done.End of story.

absolutely, you hit right on the head again. I've been coming here for about 2 years so I guess I am a bit of a newcomer. As far as making a name for myself, could really care less about it, hell lu7cky isn't even my real name. It seems to me that someone who is screaming in all caps, sending nasty emails and calling people names would be considered childish. And as for your "freelance" status, I suspect you will holding onto that for awhile. Don't quit your day job.

luc7cky isn't your real name. DUH.. It takes courage for people to not use their real names when they're trashing others. Whatever your real name is, it's obvious to me that your purpose here is to cause trouble. Nothing else. Just cause trouble and hide behind a fictitious icon while doing so. Mighty brave of you. You never wanted to debate anything. You didn't like my story, so you called me a liar, and you called my story BULLSHIT. Great debating skills you got there Mr. whoever you are. Real men don't hide behind anything.

I'll say it again. Prove me to be a liar, since you've called me one in the open. Call the SCLC/FOR WOMEN. I can write any kind of story that I choose to on this site.

True you are allowed to write whatever bullshit you want to, this is a fairly open site. My intention was never to cause trouble, only to point out that the words the you were putting into the mouth of someone didn't seem very likely and was colored with you obvious anti-obama stance. Now we can get into who is manlier than who, but at 6'2 and 215 I would likely win that argument. I don't give my real name because I have a real life and real friends who know who I am ( there are a few here who know exactly who I am because we actually interact socially) and the internet is no place share personal information. I can't be sure why you took such offense to me inquiring as to the authenticity of your "article" but calling me names and trying to start some sort pissing contest is not the way to solve it. That said, I will not be calling anyone, because I do have an actual life to lead and have no time to be the fact checker in your journalistic fantasies.

way to turn a phrase there shakespeare, I'm sure your writing carreer will take off any day now. Glad to hear you were athlete back in the 70's, but I won't be trying to match anything with you. I certainly have no desire to see your "pedigree", as it were. You feel free to get in the last word as I will not be responding to any more of your desperate attempts to draw me into some sort of altercation.

"You feel free to get in the last word as I will not be responding to any more of your desperate attempts to draw me into some sort of altercation"

Sounds like selective amnesia. You were the one telling me and anybody that's bored enough to follow this squabble, just how big you are, suggesting that I would lose anything outside of a verbal argument with you because you're 6'2" 215 lbs.

Intimidation and bluffing only works at the poker table.

IT'S NO DIFFERENT FROM WHAT YOU'RE ACCUSING ME OF IN YOUR RECKLESS COMMENTS IN THE ABOVE THREAD WHERE YOU CALL ME A LIAR WITH NO PROOF AT ALL. THAT'S A PERSONAL ATTACK.. SEND YOUR THREAD ALONG WITH.

Kids Kids can't we all just get along.

I don't approve on anyone calling me a liar.

I WAS THERE. You didn't even read the link. She address the crowd outside on Auburn Ave.. The street by itself is over 1 mile in distance. Over 250,000 people attend festivals on that street on a regular basis.Cornell West addressed the crowd (1,000) inside the church. Afterwards, as usual, as they do ecery year, the festival continues OUTSIDE, WHERE THE COMMON PEOPLE ARE. Everyone cannot fit inside of Ebenezer.

Your response sounds like a bunch of bullshit. I worked the festival. I was right by the stage. I HEARD HER SAY THE WORDS WITH MY OWN EARS FROM HER MOUTH.

Where were you ?

Probably some place watching American Idol or Dancing with the Stars.

Dexter King was the only one that tried to sell his father's memoirs. Bernice and Martin L. King lll sued him.

Get your gossip straight.

Are you suggesting that John McCain was a man of greater character ?

At least he is not a pathological narcissist...

"Yep. It is high time we rise up and understand that the whole Democrat versus Republican thing is a shell game, and there is no difference between the two parties, and we have no free will because our lives are all truly controlled by the big corporations, and upper middle class white girls have never had an unhappy moment in their lives (after all, things like drugs and child abuse and rape and cancer NEVER happen to upper middle class white girls...nor do they or their fathers or mothers ever lose their jobs and become poor)".

There's a far greater chance of these BAD things happening to people that are poor already , and when they happen to the poor, they DON'T have insurance, they don't equal protection from the law,or money for an attorney, or jobs to lose, because they are already unemployed. You just can't get that can you.

,Maybe your life doesn't need change the way other's might, and that's OK. I'm not criticizing you for doing alright in life. By the same token, you don't have the right to be critical of people who can't wait as long as you can for CHANGE.

Yes, there an aspect which should, perhaps, be considered. I could say Quantum math is based on this reality: That there are "thresholds" that are reached. Everything runs along, getting stressed further and further and seems to with-stand it. But the forces mount ever higher; and at one point, it simply changes. Changes to a new state. It crosses the threshold and the past is no more.
People are wholly tired of this rip-off game that has been played upon our country by the corporate world. We all know they have been fucking over everybody and doing so through the expediency of use of graft in the political system.

I can feel it - you can feel it - it's in the air. It's boiling. people have had it. Our country is going down the drain - and we don't like it.
You can read it everywhere, from everyone.

There's a storm afoot.

How in God's name would Barack Obama get the thumbs down by a King daughter on King's Day - if something were not cooking?

Really cooking. We don't want this (corporate) shit anymore. This pay-off as usual, f--k the citizens as usual. It is degradation of our country and we feel it in our lives.

Everybody feels it.

02 gets it.

This is what he got his brains blown out for. He became openly critical of America's foreign policy with a democrat (LBJ) sitting in the Whitehouse.

One of the most, if not 'the' most inspiring speech of truth in the past century imho...

I could not have said it better. As a matter of fact, I couldn't have even said it at all.

Thank you.

Dude, you're so busy trying to discredit Bernice King, you obviously did not even read the story and the rest of her comments.

She said, " forget the politicians". It's time for the people to take this country back from the corporations.

I really could give a shit about Obama, Palin, Limbaugh, Cheney, Clinton or whoever else you think is or is not worthy of sitting in the Oval office. I'm more concerned with why, my daughter can hardly afford college tuition, why my mortgage company is trying to steal my home, why my son may go to prison for having a bottle of prescription cough syrup in his possession, outsourcing of American jobs, and the rapid declination of the moral fiber and justice in this country. These are issue that "we the people" can fix.

That swap Obama for Palin shit is weak as baby food.

Because they feel they were he lied to.

There's nothing in the world worst than "false hope".

Really? Because I think the only thing worse is giving into it and letting it prevent you from achieving real hope.

Your comment really shows just how much you really know about that story in it's entirety. Dexter King, the youngest male child of the family, is the only one that really tried to cash in on his father's memoirs. His brother, Martin the 3rd, and his 2 sisters stopped him. They sued him. He lives in California now. What the other 3 are doing is trying to preserve and maintain the integrity of their father's true legacy.Their fight is with the Federal government that wants control and wants to incorporate a fiction that never existed for the sake of profit.

That was their father. He didn't work for the government.Why do you have a problem with that ? Somebody kills your father who's a private citizen, and try's to re-write and steal his legacy, and control's all of the profit that they make from it. You wouldn't have problem with that.

Cornell West is an incredible mind. And he speaks truth.

That change obviously is not needed by you and is not as important to you as it is to the masses of the poor and disadvantaged people in country that put trust in their vote for him and have yet to receive anything in return for it. I voted for Barack Obama, as did everyone that I know did. I feel let down immensely. "Meet the new boss,same as the old boss".

Your comment sounds extremely arrogant and condescending. What do you really even know about Bernice King to accuse her of fishing for sound bites? It reminds me of the people who now claim that they believe in her father's dream, but couldn't stand him when he was alive, and really didn't care too much about it when he was murdered. That "don't rock the boat" message.

BTW, you probably were not around then, but Dr. King spoke the same way and carried the same message..

I lived in a beat-up 1950s vintage trailer house in the middle of a horse pasture until I was 18 because we couldn't afford to live in even the crummiest trailer court in town...so save your lecture, Keith. He hasn't done anything for poor people, huh? You mean like the fact that the economy didn't completely tank and throw ANOTHER 35 million people out of work? You mean like the healthcare legislation that will provide insurance to 30 million people who currently live each day in desperate fear that they or their loved ones will become seriously ill and receive either perfunctory treatment or none at all? You mean like rolling back attempts by the Bush Administration to shove through rule and regulatory changes that would have accelerated the poisoning of our air and water...which is almost always felt hardest by those least able to afford to escape it? I have a much longer list if you are really interested in hearing it...and he is only a fourth of the way into his first term...

I was born in '61, so I was alive for a little while before Dr. King was murdered...but I had to read his words after his death. He was unquestionably one of the greatest and most compassionate men of the 20th century...and his passing was a national tragedy. That is why his daughter's use of his birthday to make cheap political points is particularly revolting.

You lived in a beat up trailer.....my heart is crying.

You remind me even more.

Ah, now I see you...sorry, I am not going to try to "out poor" you...out of all my friends only two of us got out (the rest died, went to prison or -- the lucky few -- were allowed to go into the military rather than serving their sentences). I didn't say Bernice was a bad person. I didn't say that she wasn't courageous or that the rest of her message was not uplifting. The comment about Obama was a cheap shot. But then you didn't even bother to address any of my points...and you have decided you know who I am just because I objected to one comment in her speech. Yeah, I'm a bad man...

You don't have to out poor me. I wasn't born poor. That's a prejudged assumption.

Since you insist on keep putting your foot in your mouth, You can have all of the last words that you want.

Our country is ruled by corporations - and no easy tact will make a path to change it. It is a complex, running system. IF there were change, it would have to be on a carefully planned, stepped program that tip-toed our way to a settled future.
But we do feel that the normal ball playing will not get far. It will be teasing at the edges and, it seems, making changes that may become mired in misdirection.

One-payer is good change - almost no other options should even be considered. This is where no change is preferable to giving vast sums to insurance companies.

Either change it right or don't play.

There is no glory in the health bill - it will find it's way around his neck. And it will be an insurmountable weight.