On the 40th anniversary of his assassination, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is to be honored as a champion of peace in the city where he died. A March to honor Martin Luther King will take place today in Memphis.
It was April 4 1968 when Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis Tenn. King was shot down on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel while helping organize a strike by Memphis sanitation workers.
The Mayor of Salisbury, (of course) has nothing planned for this day of remembrance/respect.
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I' glad she doesn't. Nothing is done on the day that John F. Kennedy was shot who is one of the greatest men that ever lived.
ReplyDeleteThank you for mentioning this. In a town with such a large African American population, I am especially surprised that there was no acknowledgment of MLK. Sometimes I feel that our local government would like to make the African American population disappear.
ReplyDeleteBoth of you are right.Rather you believe in what M.L.K stood for(As with J.F.K)Or you don't.It doesn't change history,or the way this crazy world is today.I'm am also suprised that there was no mention of a planned memorial here.I do not get that dumb paper,so I can't say what the coverage was.
ReplyDeleteIsn't the whole month of Feburary "Black history Month?" I don't have a problem with that. He was the Gandi of the people that is for sure, black or white.
ReplyDeleteYou can read about it in the paper tomorrow. I just looked at their website they posted something about it at 9:06 PM on their update page, instead of front page news they had some crap about the Ocean City bridge as headlines like anybody gives a rats ass.
We all from Mexico and we deserve to honor one of our national heroes. We want statue and day off work so all Spanish dont forgit there heritage. We all hard workers and do jobs that black people used to do but now are just given jobs to meet quotas or food stamps.The day coming when there be more Spanish peoples than all races. Then our people get voted in office. Vrey soon now.I live to see so.
ReplyDeleteI am an Aerican. I am not a Italian-American or a French- American or a Norwegian-American or a Greek-American. I am proud of my nationality but most of all "I AM AN AMERICAN". When do we stop all this wahs out about African-American? Eighter you are an AMERICAN or you are not. SO_BE_IT.
ReplyDeleteWe have 365 days in our calendar. To be fair, every nationality should be given a day designated when they can sing, dance, brag on their race's accomplishments,etc. Do away with Black History Month in Fearuary. The Blacks are no more important than the Chinese, Vietnamese,Spanish, Indians,and the list should total around 135 nationalities. So let's get with it and start celebrating.Let's make everybody happy not just those that make the most noise with the big mouths.
ReplyDeleteMartin Luther King Jr. destroyed a perfectly good revolution. He helped to squelch real dissent in the Country. This Country has been corrupt for a long time. Martin Luther King Jr. convinced a whole generation of real people to forget about revolution. Just lay down and be arrested. Non-violent protest is not revolution. He was not a revolutionary person. He was an incredibly efficient pansie for the white power elite. Because of him, all poor people have been resigned to slavery for the rest of this Country's miserable existence. There were plenty of poor and educated white people in the 60's who were willing to join forces with the blacks to overthrow the power elite. They could have done it too. However, the white power elite was successful at getting everyone to sit around, play music, read poetry and get strung out on barbituates. They gave us Vietnam to get the poor people hooked on opiates. Now Americans are so sleepy that we couldn't revolt if our lives depended on it. All we do is ring our hands about the one gifted speaker who convinced our parent's generation to drop out. Dream a little dream, a little folding of the hands to sleep. Caesar Caesar won't you give us some freedoms? Won't you give us some college tuition money? Won't you give us back some of our money you stole from us? Remember this, two of the people standing on the balcony that day, are now the biggest losers of the so-called black political voice in America. The poor blacks and the poor whites have no political voice. But they still have drugs, plenty of drugs.
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