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By David Edwards
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on Monday said that he knew the difference between black musicians because he’s a “brother.”
During a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day segment criticizing a New York Times columnist for pointing out that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney would be more popular among racists than current President Barack Obama, conservative media critic Bernie Goldberg showed O’Reilly a picture of himself with a black rapper.
“Here’s a picture, Bill, of Ice-T, one the the iconic figures in black culture and music,” Goldberg said.
“That’s Ice Cube!” O’Reilly interrupted.
“No. No. No. No,” Goldberg disagreed. “That’s Ice-T.”
“No, it’s Ice Cube, Bernie,” O’Reilly pointed out. “That’s how white you are. You don’t know Ice-T from Ice Cube. That’s Ice Cube.”
“I’m a brother, man,” the culture warrior host added. “You can’t be doing that to me. I know the Cubes from the Ts.”
Goldberg shot back: “Until you spend a little time chilling with Ice Cube, or Ice-T for that matter, don’t be making racial references at me.”
Finally getting around to New York Times columnist Lee Siegel’s observation that racists would prefer Romney over Obama, Goldberg complained, “This is not political analysis, this is a nasty strain of shallow stupidity.”
“Isn’t a shame that we have to talk about this stuff on Martin Luther King’s birthday?” O’Reilly asked. “Isn’t it a shame that we have to be talking about that garbage on this day?”
Speaking of iced tea, O’Reilly said in 2007 that he “couldn’t get over the fact” that Sylvia’s Restaurant in Harlem was “exactly the same” as any other restaurant.
“There wasn’t one person in Sylvia’s who was screaming, ‘M.F.-er, I want more iced tea,’” the Fox News host later told then-National Public Radio correspondent Juan Williams.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/17/on-mlk-day-oreilly-declares-himself-a-brother/
Watch this video from Fox News, broadcast Jan. 16, 2012.
"LMFAO!!!!!" =)By David Edwards
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
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“I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
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http://diversitynewsmagazine.com/2012/01/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-s-full-i-have-a-dream-speech-as-delivered-on-aug-28-1963/“I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the... more
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I have a dream today!...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.I have a dream today!...With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of... more
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Everybody talks the talk but only Ron Paul walks the walk. Ron Paul's message is very much the same as Dr martin Luther King's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycFRlrbuCOQEverybody talks the talk but only Ron Paul walks the walk. Ron Paul's message is... more
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On March 28,1965, Martin Luther King Jr. appeared on Meet The Press. This was one week after the five day march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to demonstrate against police brutality and conditions in Alabama as well as voting rights. In this interview Dr. King's courage, wisdom and strength of character shine like a beacon in a dark place. As you listen to the questions as well, to me at times it seemed more like an inquisition than a news program (especially the question about communism) but remembering the times it certainly wasn't surprising. And actually, the question in the beginning sounded like the same criticism of the Occupy movement. I guess times haven't changed that much after all. So as we celebrate his birth today it is only fitting to remember the legacy he left us and there is no better way to remember that than with his own words.On March 28,1965, Martin Luther King Jr. appeared on Meet The Press. This was one week... more
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The WHACKO-TV Video Travel Blog hit the streets of Harlem, New York. You can practically smell the aroma of this New York City neighborhood. Catch itThe WHACKO-TV Video Travel Blog hit the streets of Harlem, New York. You can... more
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Speaking at the dedication ceremony for a new monument to her father, the Rev. Bernice King said Martin Luther King Jr. would have been heartened by the Occupy Wall Street protests and larger 99 Percent Movement. “I hear my father saying what we are seeing now all across the streets of America and the world is a freedom explosion,” she said, adding that we should move beyond or conception of King’s work as just about “racial justice” to include “economic justice”:
“We are being pulled from the familiar place and comfort place of “I have a dream” to focus on another aspect of Dr. King’s life. Perhaps,the postponement [of the original dedication] was a divine interuption to remind us of the King that moved us beyond the dream of racial justice to action and work of economic justice.
Perhaps, God wanted to remind us that when our father was taken from us, he was in the midst of starting a poor people’s campaign where he was galvanizing poor people from all walks of life to converge on this nation’s capital and stay here and occupy this place until there was change in the economic system and a better distribution of wealth. [...]
In fact, we told us we must become maladjusted to certain social ills.We should never adjust to the one percent controlling more than 40 percent of the wealth.”Speaking at the dedication ceremony for a new monument to her father, the Rev. Bernice... more
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Obama offers no solutions but continues to acknowlegde Americans growing frustration.
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Barack Obama offered more support for global financial system protesters after a weekend of demonstrations across the world.
Speaking at the dedication of a new memorial to Martin Luther King on National Mall, Washington, the U.S. President called on protesters not to 'demonise' Wall Street workers.
He said: 'Dr King would want us to challenge the excesses of Wall Street without demonising those who work there.'
Mr Obama is expected to use public anger at Wall Street excess to turn up the heat on congressional Republicans as he tries to gain support for his stalled jobs bill.
He will head to North Carolina and Virginia over the next three days - both vital to his 2012 reelection chances - in visits aimed at winning passage for parts of the $447billion jobs plan.
Spokesman Josh Earnest said: 'The president will continue to acknowledge the frustration that he himself shares about the need for Washington to do more to support our economic recovery and to ensure that the interest of the 99 per cent of Americans is well-represented.'Obama offers no solutions but continues to acknowlegde Americans growing frustration.... more
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(I just got this story have no time to edit today so your on your own but WTF made in chine come on this is just bad, what no American artists were available too many in the bread lines geez)
Martin Luther King Memorial Stamped “Made In China”
I don’t know what else to say except, disgusting. There’s a video of this on the UK Telegraph website, this thing is horrible. Dr. King was made to look Oriental, there’s no mistaking it.
We spent millions outsourcing this to the Chinese. What a sorry lot we have become. Dr. King deserves better. To add a little urine in your salad dressing, Hop Sing is the same guy that did a Mao statue as well.
This crap just makes me so damned proud to be an American! How about you?
The 30ft-tall statue, which forms the centrepiece of a $120 million (£73 million), four-acre memorial to Dr King, opened to the public on Monday on the National Mall in Washington. It is the only memorial on the Mall that does not honour a president or fallen soldiers.
Standing in the shadow of the Washington Monument, the statue shows Dr King emerging from a mountain of Chinese granite with his arms crossed and is called The Stone of Hope.
However, there has been controversy over the choice of Lei Yixin, a 57-year-old master sculptor from Changsha in Hunan province, to carry out the work. Critics have openly asked why a black, or at least an American, artist was not chosen and even remarked that Dr King appears slightly Asian in Mr Lei’s rendering.
Mr Lei, who has in the past carved two statues of Mao Tse-tung, one of which stands in the former garden of Mao Anqing, the Chinese leader’s son, carried out almost all of the work in Changsha.
Really? The f—-ing Chinese? When are we going to knock this crap off?(I just got this story have no time to edit today so your on your own but WTF made in... more
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Remembering the Freedom Rides
In 1961, riders black and white headed South to test the region's segregation laws. Things turned violent in Alabama. Fifty years later, cities along the route are marking the rides with exhibit, murals and a new museum.
PHOTO: A Greyhound bus that carried Freedom Riders burns after being set ablaze by Ku Klux Klan members in 1961. (Joseph Postiglione / Birmingham)
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By Larry Bleiberg, Special to the Los Angeles Times
April 24, 2011
Reporting from Montgomery, Ala.—
As the bus leaves Atlanta, Dennis Climpson is eager for conversation. He wants to talk about college football this Sunday morning, but I have a question for him. "Have you ever heard of the Freedom Rides?" I ask.
Fifty years ago next month, a group of 15 passengers travels the same route. Like us, they were blacks and whites sitting together on buses, then a violation of segregation laws. Climpson, 48, says he hasn't heard of the protests, but he's intrigued. As Interstate 20 passes by, he turns to his smartphone to check Wikipedia.
In 1961, Charles Person was 18 and the youngest of the Freedom Riders, who were traveling on two buses to New Orleans from Washington, D.C. The Georgia native still remembers crossing into Alabama that Mother's Day. "There was tension. It was kind of eerie."
Person expected to be harassed and roughed up as the group tested compliance with federal integration laws, but he didn't imagine much worse. "This was broad daylight," he says.
Later that day, members of the Ku Klux Klan would set fire to one bus and beat riders on the other with pipes, chains and bats. Over the next week, the world would watch as the Kennedy administration struggled to protect the protesters.
The racial violence shocked — and changed — America.
Today you can retrace the Freedom Rides easily by car or bus. The Alabama cities on the route are marking the anniversary with murals, exhibits and a new museum. It's a leisurely tour of the Deep South, where you'll find gracious hosts, good food and stark reminders of a not-so-distant past.
Climpson, who is bound for Jackson, Miss., to start a new truck-driving job, can't believe what he's reading on his phone.
"Anniston, Ala.?" he asks, pointing to the screen. "I thought that was a quiet town."
Half a century ago, when the Greyhound bus carrying some of the Freedom Riders pulled into Anniston, in the foothills of the Appalachians, a crowd awaited. Klan members pummeled the vehicle and slashed its tires. It limped away 20 minutes later, and a convoy of cars followed. Six miles later, the bus stopped with a flat.
Bernard Emerson still lives on a hill overlooking the spot, which now bears a historic marker. Someone had tossed burning rags through a smashed bus window. "The smoke was getting pretty thick," he recalls. "One lady was coming out of the window. She got her foot caught, and she was kind of hanging there."
Anniston, a town of 23,000, has only recently acknowledged the incident, commissioning murals and detailed exhibit signs at its former bus stations, two blocks from the current stop. I took a layover for a few hours to look around and eventually found my way to a converted Woolworth's, now a restaurant called Classic on Noble. Its Sunday brunch recalls a Southern country club buffet: more than 100 offerings, including fried green tomatoes, grits, shrimp salad, beef tenderloin and a dessert counter with 26 pies, cobblers and cakes. The after-church crowd is predominately white, but a few black guests feast too.
"We're a nice town," the hostess tells me. "We have a dark past, but we've overcome it."
When the second bus reached Anniston in 1961, a pair of Klansmen boarded and beat the riders, causing permanent brain damage to one. The Klansmen warned them that worse awaited 60 miles down the road in Birmingham.
"They taunted us all the way," Person says. Still, the wounded protesters stuck to their plan; when they arrived, they headed to the white waiting room in the Trailways bus station.
"The walls were surrounded by a group of men," Person recalls. "As we got toward the center, they started coming toward us."
Person, who had been trained to practice Gandhian nonviolence, was immediately set upon. "Everyone had a chance to punch me," he says. His head was bashed with a pipe. Then a news photographer snapped a picture, distracting Person's attackers. "I just walked out of my jacket," he recalls. "I did not run. I was still under control."
He stepped outside and boarded a city bus. The first Freedom Rides had ended, and Person had escaped with his life.
CONTINUED...Remembering the Freedom Rides
In 1961, riders black and white headed South to test... more
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At more than 1,000 events across the country, communities joined together in unity to mark the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.—and to protect the very rights he died to protect. Building on the momentum that started here in Wisconsin, nurses, firefighters, teachers, people of faith, students and community members stood together in streets, parks and state Capitol buildings across America.
In Wisconsin, thousands stood united against the political attacks against working families and the middle class with over 30 different events in more than two dozen cities. Teach-ins, movie screenings, rallies, marches and candlelight vigils were held in Appleton, Beloit, DePere, Eau Claire, Fond du Lac, Green Bay, Janesville, Kaukauna, Kenosha, La Crosse, Madison, Menomonie, Milwaukee, Oconto Falls, Oshkosh, Platteville, Racine, Ripon, River Falls, Shawano, Sheboygan, Steven’s Point and Wausau.
“Forty three years after the assassination of Dr. King, working men and women face politically motivated attacks aimed at silencing their rights and voices,” said Clay Christenson, city of Madison firefighter with IAFF Local 311. “Unfortunately, the efforts to undermine the middle class have spread from state capitol to state capitol. Today, we stand together not only against Scott Walker’s attempts to destroy more than 50 years of labor-management cooperation in Wisconsin, but against the attacks on workers nationwide.”
“Being a union member is more than fighting for fair wages, it’s about fighting for human rights,” said Bobby Staples, a Milwaukee area retired registered nurse with the Wisconsin Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals, AFT Local 5001. “The struggle has been a hard one but we are still moving toward ‘the mountaintop.’ We’re building on Dr. King’s fight for economic so that future generations can grow up in a country of opportunity, and not in a land where the gap between rich and poor keeps growing.”
“I am not a union member but I came out to support workers’ rights, collective bargaining and Wisconsin’s middle class today,” said Lynn Hirsch, a retired social worker from the Madison area who brought her grandchildren to the rally at the Capitol. “The whole community has come together to honor Dr. King and the workers of America. We will not stand for these outrageous political attacks that seem to be sweeping the nation from conservative governors.”
The Rev. Jesse Jackson joined the rally in Madison along with two of the original AFSCME sanitation workers who fought for the right to collectively bargain with the city of Memphis in 1968. Jesse Jackson encouraged Wisconsinites to “come alive, April 5″ and vote tomorrow.
“When we vote, we show the world that one bullet cannot kill a movement,” explained Rev. Jackson. “When we vote, we make Dr. King happy.”
The rally in Madison was followed by a march led by Rev. Jesse Jackson and students around the Capitol to Martin Luther King Drive, where student activist groups, people of faith and the community held a candlelight vigil.
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, while supporting striking AFSCME sanitation workers in Memphis who were fighting for the right to collectively bargain for a better life.
Yet 43 years later, in Wisconsin and across the country, well-funded, right-wing corporate politicians are trying to take away the rights King gave his life for: the right to collectively bargain, to vote, to afford a college education and justice for all workers, immigrant and native-born. This year to commemorate his sacrifice, Wisconsinites organized throughout the state to revive King’s dream.
http://bit.ly/eStLYJAt more than 1,000 events across the country, communities joined together in unity to... more
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tenn., where he was standing with sanitation workers demanding their dream of a better life. Today, the right to bargain collectively for a voice at work and a middle-class life are under attack as never before. Find out more here.
Join us to make April 4, 2011, and the days surrounding it, a day to stand in solidarity with working people in Wisconsin and dozens of other states where corporate-bought politicians are trying to take away the rights Dr. King gave his life for.
http://local.we-r-1.org/Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tenn., where he... more
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Recently discovered photos and letters are giving an inside look at the man convicted of assassinating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
On April 4, 1968, King was shot and killed by a sniper as he stood on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was trying to mediate a garbage workers' strike.
The celebrated civil rights leader's death led to race riots in dozens of cities and mourning around the world.
American James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to the murder of the civil rights leader and was sentenced to 99 years in prison in March 1969. Ray died in 1998.
Little was known of Ray's state of mind in his months in jail before his guilty plea -- until Shelby County, Tennessee, officials came across a bundle of documents about five years ago in a local archival building.
"In 2005, we started going through the Shelby County archives -- going through organizing, identifying things," Tom Leatherwood, Shelby County register of deeds, said Wednesday. "But then in 2006 or 2007, we found this bundle. I said well, what is it? Let's see. And so we picked it up, turned it over, and there it was."
That bundle -- an unassuming, mustard-yellow folder with tape crisscrossing it -- had inscribed on it in black marker, "Public Defender James E. Ray. Do Not Destroy."
Inside was a wealth of information, including photos of the newly incarcerated accused murderer, as well as letters to family and his attorney during the eight months he was detained at the Shelby County jail.
Since then, Leatherwood said, he has been working with the county attorney to try to get those documents released to the public.
"There's no game-changer here, but for history lovers, there's some really great information," Leatherwood said.
Black-and-white photos show Ray being patted down by law enforcement; others show him being ushered into his jail cell. One photo shows him being escorted out of a vehicle by then-Sheriff Bill Morris and surrounded by a phalanx of police, apparently on the night he arrived in Memphis after his extradition from England, where he was captured.
Letters and Christmas cards exchanged between Ray and his family indicate a close relationship. "Take it easy," was a frequent sign-off from Ray to his brother and sister.
Ray asked his sister to visit two months after his capture by police. "Bring enough to stay a couple of days," his note reads. "I can explain everything when I see them."
Another letter, sent to Ray's brother Jerry just a month before he pleaded guilty, read: "If you have anything to say about case or anything else don't write it wait until I see you or visit."
Ray also made sure whatever financial gains his story might produce for future generations would be passed on to his brother, Jerry.
"I hereby leave the property belonging to me at the time of my death, being any rights to book royalties, movie royalties and rights and rights to any other monetary compensation whether literary or otherwise," he wrote by hand in his last will and testament.
Also included in the document release are photos of Sirhan Sirhan, the convicted killer of Robert F. Kennedy. The sheriff had contacted law enforcement in California to gain knowledge on how they managed security around Sirhan.
"(Morris) knew he had a potentially explosive situation here, so he reached out to them for advice on how to handle a high-risk, high-profile inmate," Leatherwood said.
After his sentencing, Ray recanted and asked to be tried on an innocent plea, but was rebuffed by the courts. Forensic tests were conducted in 1997 on a hunting rifle recovered near the scene of the assassination, but the results were inconclusive.
After years of fighting to get his name cleared, Ray spent his last days in a coma at a Nashville hospital and died of liver failure in 1998.
Monday marks the 43rd anniversary of King's death.Recently discovered photos and letters are giving an inside look at the man convicted... more
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That photo of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. riding one of the first desegregated buses in Montgomery, Ala.? He took it. The well-known image of black sanitation workers carrying “I Am A Man” signs in Memphis? His. He was the only photojournalist to document the entire trial in the murder of Emmett Till, and he was there in Room 306 of the Lorraine Hotel, King’s room, on the night he was assassinated.That photo of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. riding one of the first desegregated... more
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) was one of the most visible advocates of nonviolence and direct action as methods of social change. Dr. King initially gained national prominence for his role in the Montgomery bus boycott campaign, as well as in the Birmingham demonstrations that led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He was the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964; the Presidential Medal of Freedom was awarded to Dr. King by President Jimmy Carter in 1964.
In late 1967, King initiated the Poor People’s Campaign, which was designed to confront economic problems that had not been addressed by earlier civil rights reforms. The following year, while supporting striking sanitation workers in Memphis, he delivered his final address, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.” The following day, April 4, 1968, Dr. King was assassinated.
This commemorative piece includes a number of high-resolution vintage photographs, as well as two memorable documentary short films.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/a-tribute-to-dr-martin-luther-king-and-the-civil-rights-movement/Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) was one of the most visible advocates of... more
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“100 Days of No Violence” is a community service initiative that was launched on October 10th through Councilor Jay Roberson spearheaded by area youth in an effort to combat crime, especially among youth, in the Birmingham and surrounding communities. Nearly 3,000 students have signed pledges to commit to influence their peers to abstain from behavior that could lead to homicides or their going to jail for 100 days leading into the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday in January 2011.
For more information go to www.thebirminghammovement.com or call Councilor Roberson’s office at 205-254-2498 or 205-873-4703.
Website: http://www.thebirminghammovement.com/“100 Days of No Violence” is a community service initiative that was... more
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.“
~Margaret Mead
Bilal's Stand was created by high school and college students in the city of Detroit. Taking four years and several maxed-out credit cards to complete, it debuted at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and won the Crystal Heart Award at Heartland.
Now it is being turned into a movement, the TAKE A STAND campaign, aimed to inspire and empower youth across America. We are hustling to get it out to 1000 schools this winter starting MLK Jr. Day (Jan. 17, 2011) - that's a reach of 1,000,000 students! This is a first in film, and we're super excited about the potential! But to get there, we need support to put the finishing touches on the movie and movement."Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the... more
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