At noon today on KUOW, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s most famous speech will be broadcast, along with the first of five lectures he gave on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in late 1967 regarding the labor movement. (And right now on KUOW: UW professor Michael Honey, who has collected Dr. King’s speeches on the topic in his book “All Labor Has Dignity,” which sounds fascinating if you can stand Steve Scher’s questions.)
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We should definitely slaughter a sacrificial lamb in his memory.
FAIR.org article “The Martin Luther King Jr 1960s TV viewers didn’t see”.
Funny how WaPo and Reader’s Digest among other mass media pooh-poohed King’s post-civil-rights-march crusade against poverty and America’s involvement in the Vietnam War.
One of the more relevant speeches in the Occupy era is “Sleeping Through a Great Revolution”. And of course the economic calls of ’68 were decades ahead of their time!
I like Steve Scher. I believe he’s a competent interviewer, and I regret hearing over and over again that you don’t.
The Rev Martin Luther King Jr was a Southern Christian clergymen living the Gospel of Jesus Christ to make the world a better place.
He was one in a long line of like individuals over the centuries whose Christian beliefs inspired and motivated them.
Slog likes to condemn all religion,
and Christianity especially-
but Bigots always focus on and magnify the flaws in those they hate and refuse to acknowledge the virtues and good works.
It is a sad way to go through life;
hatred and bigotry hurt most those who harbor them.
@ see and believe what you wish, but slog has always been nice to me…
@6 was for @ 5 ..sorry for any confusion