[Coach_Owens87]

"Everyone knows, even the smallest kid knows about Martin Luther King, can say his most famous moment was that "I have a dream" speech," said Henry Louis Taylor Jr., professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Buffalo.

"No one can go further than one sentence," he said. "All we know is that this guy had a dream, we don't know what that dream was."

Here is an interesting article that makes a great point about how people use MLK to minipulate situations and dont really take into consideration what he stood for.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080120/ap_o...mlk_legacy

[thecavemaster]

MLK glimpsed something of the power structures of this world, which is why he went to Memphis to stand with the striking sanitation workers. He saw how money and power exist in symbiotic relationship. His philosophy of non-violent resistance would have been useful in the days leading up to this present war, which he would have vehemntly opposed. I remember how calm he looked after being stabbed (with the knife still stuck in his chest), as he waited for emergency personnel to arrive. He was not a perfect man, none are...but he was a great man, a leader who held America's feet to the fire of the promises she makes to all.