The Dream Speech vs. the Other America Speech. The belittling of Dr. King.
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Posted By: John Washington on July 21, 2010 It always amazes me in life that those who never knew you have the most to say about you and your friends are sometimes closed shut. Lol. Well we as Black Americans should know Dr. King more than any other people because he came from us. Yet as I see the march of Washington yesterday in D.C I see people like Al Sharpton and other Black Misleadership that don't know the first thing about Dr. King. In fact President Obama who loves to talk of Dr. King when he's trying to appeal race neutral doesn't know anything about Dr. King as well. Am I on an ego trip here or do I really have a point? Yes and no. Knowing Dr. King is a big deal because he was one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of North American struggle for freedom. And yes I do have a point that is that often times historical fiquires particuarily revolutionaries are taken out of context and put into a nice neat package to be re-valuated in a new light that pleases the Elites and keeps the true story of their life unknown to the oppressed. The Dream Speech is a considered Dr. King's greatest speech for it deals with vision of an utopian society. Although America is designed to be a just a **** colony many revolutions and uprising have made it on the path to such an idea. The Declaration of Independance made a huge step, The Civil War that ended slavery and the Civil Rights Act of that ended Jim Crow. In everyone of these revolts we've had messiahs or heroic persons who lead the way to such changes. Yet everyone of them after their death was embraced by an elite and re-packaged that is responsible for their deaths and the oppression in which their life was spent trying to destroy. You had George Washington and Fredrick Douglas, Abraham Lincoln and Booker T. Washington then President Kennedy and Dr. King along with Malcolm X. I can give a bigger list of them but my point is this when you examine that list most if not all of them have been reduced to fairy tale status and the remaining image should be an insult to our intelligence. But what does this have do to with the Dream speech you might add? When Dr. King made the Dream Speech it was in the Summer of 1963 before the passage of the Civil Rights act in 1964 by President Johnson. Yet after accessing America's response to his dream and Dr. King grew to other conclusions that are not highlighted in his life which promoted Dr. King to give another speech. So on April 14, 1967 Dr. King gave the Other America speech which spells out America's backlash to the Civil Rights Act by invoking institutionalized lynching of Black Americans and Latino Americans. Dr. King talked about selective police enforcement, selective prosecution, high incarceration of people of color. The giant income gap between Blacks and Whites, redlining and a host of issues that still plaque us today. Dr. King was a forerunner in defining Institutionalized Racism. His speech at Stanford was particuarily important because that institution sends out graduates on the West Coast the same as Yale or Harvard Universities on the East Coast who become heads of institutions, government and civil leaders, judges, prosecutors and industry leaders. It is from this level of our society in which institutions of race and class get distributed. To me personally this was Dr. King's greatest speech not because it came near the end of his life but because this speech demostrated tactical mastery and great foresight he possessed to see not only the current strategy of the elite but the subtle plans they were making back then to keep Whites and Blacks divided in order to keep **** us all in oppression. So Jim Crow lived on and Dr. King pointed it out but I guess it wasn't alot of us in attendance at the great Stanford University. Lol. So many of our Black leaders didn't get it and some of them are doing Dr. King a great disservice by promoting the fairy tale made for Hollywood version of his work and life. So President Obama's one America doesn't exist as he tries to spoon fed this fairy tale Dr. King to support his abandonment of African Americans to keep the Fox hounds from attacking him for being a Black radical. To be honest with you without changing the core of America's beliefs and institutions having a Black President isn't in alignment with Dr. King's dream. For in this hostile enviroment President Obama is more a of pawn put in place to keep allowing institutionalized racism which is a more deadly form of racism to continue killing off people of color unabated. How so? Because it's simple as putting the cart before the horse. Until we are able to tactically deal with the backlash of the Civil Rights revolution which is just one of many revolts against America version of King John's cruel rule by dividing and conquering we are playing the game backwards. We are ignoring the plight of many African Americans who are suffering due to unfair laws, legistrations, policies and acts design to keep African Americans beneath Whites and justify for why we should stay divided as a nation on a whole. Thank you for reading. 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John Washington
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Hello to All, I know that all of you are smarter than I since I have an IQ of 68. However, you all talk about the speech Dr. King made at Stanford University, the Dream speech and a speech at Riverside Church in New York City. Have you considered the last speech Dr. King made in Memphis, Tennessee supporting the Black sanitation workers? I do not think neither of you have. Dr. King said that God had allowed him to go to the mountaintop and he looked over. He saw the Promised Land. He said that he may not get there with us, but we as a people are going to get to the Promised Land. Now, what and where is the Promised Land? Since you all are so smart do you not think that his last speech should supersede all his previous speeches? I will tell all of you again that Black America’s only permanent solution is that we become a sovereign people on a portion of this continent that we could call our very own country with borders. Was our sovereignty the Promised Land that King said that God allowed him to see? Tell me what you think. Wednesday, July 21st 2010 at 1:35PM |
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Harry I must say you remind me of that James Brown song... TALKING LOUD AND SAYING NOTHING!!! Wednesday, July 21st 2010 at 2:37PM |
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Hello Siebra, What you need to do is show me where I am wrong. So, let us forget about James Brown, okay. Wednesday, July 21st 2010 at 7:08PM |
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Harry, I (or should I say we) have showed you countless times where you are wrong and you fail to take heed. So as long as you fail to take heed, keep driving yourself off the cliff like that little cardboard figure in The Price Is Right game...LOL
Wednesday, July 21st 2010 at 7:53PM |
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well ,as we live in a country of freedom of speech and assembly...some will agree with Beck and the neice of Dr. King going to D.C. and doing his "i have a dream " speech the correct way... this is why "I' still believe we should learn about Dr. m. L. King directly (but this will take going directly to those O-l-D USLESS PEOPLE WO ACTUALLY KNEW HIM, PERSONALLY, GREW UP WITH HIM, ETC...from Dr. King, and John can you say you have done just (AND, REGRET YOU HAVE NOT BEEN KILLED OFF?LOL )that or are you getting yours second handed ?!? (smile) nOT TRYING TO PUT YOU DOWN JOHN ONLY ASKING ARE YOU READY TO DO WHAT YOU PEAACH ON THIS VERY SITE... Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM |
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