that's right..
MLK's politics will lift all of us...raise every boat...his message is color blind.
Only the harden hearts of the racist White supremisists would disagree.
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MLK would be proud today. The firat African American Presedential nominee. I guess we have come along way.
NOW LET'S MAKE HIM THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!!!!!
NOW LET'S MAKE HIM THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!!!!!
Me and Barack were both 2 years-old when that speech -- one for the ages that did, indeed, changed the world -- was given. Elder generations have allowed Complacency and the Republican Culture of Greed to derail The Dream for 45 years, but NO MORE. What began with Nixon, ends with Bush. Right here, right now.
QUOTE (ChiffonBreath @ Aug 28 2008, 03:11 PM) 
that's right..
MLK's politics will lift all of us...raise every boat...his message is color blind.
Only the harden hearts of the racist White supremisists would disagree.
Ooops I really screwed up the title of this thread in the header....
If there is a n available mod, could you please change it to read" OH My...the MLK speech clips are bringing me to tears
hahaha, a good freudian slip...peach lips
MLK's politics will lift all of us...raise every boat...his message is color blind.
Only the harden hearts of the racist White supremisists would disagree.
Ooops I really screwed up the title of this thread in the header....
If there is a n available mod, could you please change it to read" OH My...the MLK speech clips are bringing me to tears
hahaha, a good freudian slip...peach lips
Looks like we have at least three threads on the same thing.
QUOTE (SickupandFed @ Aug 28 2008, 03:19 PM)
Looks like we have at least three threads on the same thing.
Is everyone crying with me? I get so overwhelmed whenever I listen to his speeches. All I can do is cry and repeat to myself, please make it so, please make it so, please make it so...some how, no matter what.
QUOTE (ChiffonBreath @ Aug 28 2008, 03:11 PM)
that's right..
MLK's politics will lift all of us...raise every boat...his message is color blind.
Only the harden hearts of the racist White supremisists would disagree.
Ooops I really screwed up the title of this thread in the header....
If there is a n available mod, could you please change it to read" OH My...the MLK speech clips are bringing me to tears
hahaha, a good freudian slip...peach lips
MLK's politics will lift all of us...raise every boat...his message is color blind.
Only the harden hearts of the racist White supremisists would disagree.
Ooops I really screwed up the title of this thread in the header....
If there is a n available mod, could you please change it to read" OH My...the MLK speech clips are bringing me to tears
hahaha, a good freudian slip...peach lips
Done. Your bill's in the mail.
And yes, it's going to a very emotional day.
Here's some Kleenex:
This speech always makes me cry. I want so much to see his words find their fulfillment in in Barak Obama.
It's about time, America. It's fecking about time.
It's about time, America. It's fecking about time.
The perfect way to start her show today.
Playing the Part of that great speech that most gloss over, tells me just how much she get it. It would be so easy to fall in line, like all the others and do the "dream" tap dance, but no our girl gets it.
That speech was not just about a dream but about that check that was stamped "insufficient funds."
That speech was about how much we are all in this together. I have to stop now because it hits me so hard every time I hear his voice and know what could have been. What should have been.
What will it be ameriKa?
Playing the Part of that great speech that most gloss over, tells me just how much she get it. It would be so easy to fall in line, like all the others and do the "dream" tap dance, but no our girl gets it.
That speech was not just about a dream but about that check that was stamped "insufficient funds."
That speech was about how much we are all in this together. I have to stop now because it hits me so hard every time I hear his voice and know what could have been. What should have been.
What will it be ameriKa?
I THINK SHE PLAYS IT EVERY YEAR, BUT THIS YEAR IT'S DIFFERENT, THIS YEAR IT IS A DREAM REALIZED.
Today is my special work shirt day. Weaing my long sleeve '40th annviersary of the samaitation workers strike shirt to my swing shift where the acceptance speech will be on tele. Now to be fair I must have GOP event on next week because it's a public university-so until I'm asked to kill it it will run and I will bite my tounge.
QUOTE (dportjoe @ Aug 28 2008, 04:23 PM)
Today is my special work shirt day. Weaing my long sleeve '40th annviersary of the samaitation workers strike shirt to my swing shift where the acceptance speech will be on tele. Now to be fair I must have GOP event on next week because it's a public university-so until I'm asked to kill it it will run and I will bite my tounge.
GOP event suggestion...Progressives taking out the trash in DC (covet message). Overt message...look at the shiny shiny pix of GOP, don't they have nice hair and nice teeth?
QUOTE (dportjoe @ Aug 28 2008, 01:23 PM)
Weaing my long sleeve '40th annviersary of the samaitation workers strike shirt to my swing shift where the acceptance speech will be on tele.
I am so glad you wore that shirt.
People don't bother to read any of the context of the "Been to the Mountaintop" speech, but it was in the middle of a massive labor action.
Last minute and a half of that speech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0FiCxZKuv8
Chris Rock said it the best," We tried a white retard..... NEXT" I was wondering why the convention was ending on a Thursday, I am a slow learner. That was very cool. Only in America.
QUOTE (carmenjonze @ Aug 28 2008, 09:48 PM)
I am so glad you wore that shirt.
People don't bother to read any of the context of the "Been to the Mountaintop" speech, but it was in the middle of a massive labor action.
Last minute and a half of that speech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0FiCxZKuv8
People don't bother to read any of the context of the "Been to the Mountaintop" speech, but it was in the middle of a massive labor action.
Last minute and a half of that speech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0FiCxZKuv8
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article.../808290410/1215
"From living rooms to union halls to bar stools, metro Detroiters gathered Thursday night to witness history: Illinois Sen. Barack Obama accepting the nomination for president of the United States from a major political party -- the first African American to do so.
It was a night steeped in nostalgia and hopefulness -- Obama's nomination speech was juxtaposed against the 45-year anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s monumental "I Have a Dream" speech during a march on Washington. In the 1963 speech, King said he dreamed of the day his four children would not be judged by the color of their skin but the content of their character.
Obama supporters echoed the same sentiment about their candidate.
"This is a mark in history -- all that we've been working toward has not been in vain," said Charnese Stewart, 22, a Wayne State University pre-pharmacy major. "I just pray that Americans are able to put aside their stereotypes and explore what Barack Obama stands for, not what he looks like."
Stewart was one of hundreds of metro Detroiters who gathered at Cobo Hall on Thursday for a rally, before marching nearly two miles through downtown streets to Bert's Marketplace in Eastern Market to watch the Democratic National Convention in Denver on big-screen TVs, both inside and out. As the crowd -- waving Obama signs and chanting "Yes we can!" -- made its way down Jefferson Avenue, they were met with honks and screams of support.
"This is the realization of a dream of hope and faith," Sandra Dixon, 49, a downtown Detroit resident, said of Obama's achievement. "Now it's up to the American people to take it all the way."
Many along the route said King paved the way for Obama and those who will follow. Just as King characterized his speech as "deeply rooted in the American dream," Obama painted a picture of his own American dream, one where the government works for all people and every child receives a world-class education........."
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"From living rooms to union halls to bar stools, metro Detroiters gathered Thursday night to witness history: Illinois Sen. Barack Obama accepting the nomination for president of the United States from a major political party -- the first African American to do so.
It was a night steeped in nostalgia and hopefulness -- Obama's nomination speech was juxtaposed against the 45-year anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s monumental "I Have a Dream" speech during a march on Washington. In the 1963 speech, King said he dreamed of the day his four children would not be judged by the color of their skin but the content of their character.
Obama supporters echoed the same sentiment about their candidate.
"This is a mark in history -- all that we've been working toward has not been in vain," said Charnese Stewart, 22, a Wayne State University pre-pharmacy major. "I just pray that Americans are able to put aside their stereotypes and explore what Barack Obama stands for, not what he looks like."
Stewart was one of hundreds of metro Detroiters who gathered at Cobo Hall on Thursday for a rally, before marching nearly two miles through downtown streets to Bert's Marketplace in Eastern Market to watch the Democratic National Convention in Denver on big-screen TVs, both inside and out. As the crowd -- waving Obama signs and chanting "Yes we can!" -- made its way down Jefferson Avenue, they were met with honks and screams of support.
"This is the realization of a dream of hope and faith," Sandra Dixon, 49, a downtown Detroit resident, said of Obama's achievement. "Now it's up to the American people to take it all the way."
Many along the route said King paved the way for Obama and those who will follow. Just as King characterized his speech as "deeply rooted in the American dream," Obama painted a picture of his own American dream, one where the government works for all people and every child receives a world-class education........."
Photos
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