Tomorrow is Martin Luther King Day! - "Give the Candidates the MLK Test"

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http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_glen_for_080119_give_the_candidates_.htm">Give the Candidates the MLK Test

by Glen Ford

January 19, 2008 at 14:57:04

Black Agenda Radio with Glen Ford
http://uprisingradio.org/home/?p=762

"What would Dr. King do?"

The corporate media-mangled Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton "debate" over the relative contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and President Lyndon Johnson coincides with the birthday of the actual Martin Luther King. Since the corporate media is totally incapable of covering or even tolerating the raising of any issues of substance, and because both Obama and Clinton avoid real issues, real facts, and real history like the plague, we urge that thinking voters put the candidates to the Martin Luther King Test. What would Dr. King do, if he were alive?

Dr. King said the "triple evils" of his day were militarism, racism, and economic exploitation. In his brilliant April 4, 1967 speech at New York's Riverside Church, Dr. King showed the interaction of all three "evils" in the world; that these evils worked together against the interests of humanity. King declared that the Vietnam War, and other U.S. wars in the Third World, were evil manifestations of American militarism and an attempt to prevent other peoples from making "their arrival as full men" in the world - a reference to the underlying racism and economic exploitative nature of U.S. foreign policy.

In addition, Dr. King said he was "compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor" in the U.S. King noted the "shining moment" when, after years of struggle, President Johnson became a collaborator with the Civil Rights Movement, pushing through Congress both civil rights and anti-poverty legislation. But then "came the buildup in Vietnam," and King knew, in his words, "that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube."

"Obama and Clinton have already failed the test."

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A Celebration of the Man and the Holiday

http://www.holidays.net/mlk/


" I have a dream... I have a dream that one day little black boys and black girls

will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers

I have a dream today"


Each year on the third Monday of January schools, federal offices, post office and banks across
America close as we celebrate the birth, the life and the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is a time for the nation to remember the injustices that Dr. King fought. A time to remember his
fight for the freedom, equality, and dignity of all races and peoples. A time to remember the message
of change through nonviolence

We've got stories of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement. So bring your
kids and tell your friends. And please stop by again. Don't forget to sign our Guestbook before you
leave. The next celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be on Monday January 21, 2008.

This Years Theme:

Remember! Celebrate! Act! A Day On, Not A Day Off!!

[Breeze54]

1. Remember! Celebrate! Act! A Day On, Not A Day Off !!

Great theme! Especially this year!

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2. K&R

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