Martin Luther King program on History Channel now (Tom Browkaw)

[DemoTex]

Direct TV = 269

[DemoTex]

1. If you aren't watching this, you should be.

[PA Democrat]

3. I was just about to post this.

I recommend it as well.

[SeattleGirl]

2. Not on on the west coast until 8:00 pm. n/t

[Garbo 2004]

4. Thanks. I was just going to check the west coast schedule. n/t

[DemoTex]

5. Alabama then and Alabama now.

A phenomenally corrupt, hateful place (and I'm originally from Alabama). It has changed, but not for the good.

[DemoTex]

6. There it is: Congress blackmailed by J. Edgar Hoover .. thus ineffective (1963).

WTF has DemoTex been screaming for 4-5 years? The Congress is being blackmailed now .. by Bu$hco. Mark my word! Rove learned well. Very well.

[DemoTex]

7. Then there was 9/15/1963: the Birmingham Church Bombing.

And we are worried about terrorism as a new threat?

[DemoTex]

8. Selma: Sheriff Jim Clark & the Edmond Pettus Bridge

Any really long-time DUers might remember my many cross-country drives between Dallas and my NC mountain home. I always split off I-20 at the Mississippi-Alabama line to take US-80 through Demopolis (City of the People .. eh, Trof?) and Selma, to get to Montgomery and do I-85 to Georgia to see my folks in Griffin.

But when I got to Selma .. when I got to Selma! Remember? I always took US-80-Downtown to cross the Pettus Bridge in honor of what happened there in the Civil Rights Wars of the 1960s.

Last September I drove my new Prius from here (Greenville, SC) to Dallas, Tx, to see my B/P specialist. I went through Griffin to see my folks. Then I-85 to MGM, and US-80 through downtown Selma .. the Pettus Bridge.

The Pettus Bridge haunts me. Probably because of my racist relatives in Montgomery and their comments at the time of the Selma-Montgomery march (unspeakable and unprintable comments). That march is well-marked now, with historical markers along US-80 between Selma and Montgomery.

[DemoTex]

9. MLK sinks like a stone? WTF is wrong with DU nowadays?

I'm disgusted. I guess I'm living in the early 2001 DU. But 99% of you have no clue what that was like.

On edit: MLK sinks .. "DANGEROUS Randi Rhodes" has 333 responses. Get your fucking shit together, folks. The glue that binds DU is getting watered down every day.

[Connie_Corleone]

10. I read your thread. I watched the program.

I just didn't have anything to add. I would rather read comments from people who lived thru those times.

Although I did find the part about King in Chicago and how whites in the North were "worse" than they were in the South interesting.

I can't compare to the South, but the attitudes and history in my city, Cincinnati, suggest that what King said was true.

[DemoTex]

16. Thank, Connie.

I was thinking my thread was invisible. Obviously, it was not.

[scarletwoman]

11. I don't have cable or satellite, so I have no way of watching this program.

I was in junior high school in St. Paul, Minnesota (all white) at that time in history, pretty far removed from the events going on in the South.

I paid attention to the news on TV; and growing up in a liberal household, I was brought up to despise racial bigotry. But I wasn't personally affected beyond my feelings of sorrow and horror at what was happening so far away from my own little world. I wished I could help, but I didn't know what to do, I was just a 13-year-old white girl in 1963.

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[DemoTex]

18. You are Dr. D's age .. born in 1950.

Dr. D. has racial horror stories from here in Greenville. I won't get into them. Her pseudo-racist, macho dad, however, did operate on Jesse Jackson's knee (JJ was from Greenville) from a football injury. He always talked of Jesse Jackson in loving terms: "That damned kid could run like the wind! I fixed his damn knee .. and then he started a' preachin'!"

[scarletwoman]

19. Me: born November 1949.

I've never been to the South, I honestly can't imagine what it would have been like back then -- I can't really imagine it now, for that matter. Totally different culture from the heavily Scandinavian milieu I grew up in. My dad's family were Norwegian immigrant farmers in far western MN. No horror stories in my childhood other than lutefisk. The sheltered life of a Northern girl...

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[noel711]

12. This was outstanding..

the images from news footage of the times...

the witness of people who were there...

Even Bubba Clinton, altho he wasn't there, he behaved himself.

The musical soundtracke that accompanied the narration
was incredible.

This is what television should do: inform, inspire, evoke, and change.

The tragedy is that we still haven't learned those lessons....

All those folks who say: Obama isn't ready to be president (Shame on them! )
should be made to watch this. After seeing this, my first thought was:
Why has it taken us so long?

[SeattleGirl]

13. It'll be on here on the west coat in about 5 minutes.

I'm looking forward to seeing it.

[Snarkturian Clone]

14. Remember when everyone was calling the history channel

the propaganda network and the RW channel because they showed that one 911 special?

on edit:

found one of the threads:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x169938

[malaise]

15. History channel isn't working here

neither is CSpan.

[Brigid]

17. I watched it.

I may stay up and watch it again. Fascinating. :)

[SeattleGirl]

20. This program is amazing!

I have seen a lot of the footage of Dr. King, as well as that of what was going on with the dogs, the riots, etc., but I am seeingso much more of it in this program.

[ElkHunter]

21. Good program...

I was born in 1953 and even though I lived in the north I certainly remember these events. There were only three networks then and the evening news was a habit with many families of that era, including mine. The networks covered what was happening in the South and it was discussed in our home. During those years my parents were liberal Democrats who were very suportive of Dr. King and the civil rights movement. I also remember vividly the day he was assassinated and participated in a memorial march a few days afterwards.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

22. Watching now -- missed the first run.

Terrific stuff.

I'm old enough to remember some of this; though I grew up in Minnesota and didn't see it directly, I read about it and saw the demonstrations on TV. What a lot of people seem to have forgotten now is that during the '60s King was considered by the government and the "establishment" to be a dangerous radical, not just because of his civil rights work but also because of his opposition to the Vietnam war. It's kind of ironic how the political establishment praises him now, considering...