In memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[mia]

Today marks 50 years since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I miss him.

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[Cha]

1. Mahalo, mia..

[mia]

2. Thank you, Cha.

[Cha]

4. There ya go..

I like that.. Thank you!

[herding cats]

3. Thank you.

It's been so long now.

I've spent multiple hours trying to process how far we've come, and how far we haven't, the past few days. It's been depressing.

[mia]

10. Hopeful that MLK's voice will renew your spirit.

[Raine]

5. R-I-P Dr King

You'll always be missed, we need you so much now more then ever...

[VOX]

6. If his "Been to the Mountaintop" final speech doesn't move you, your heart is made of stone.

America would be so different had John Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy not been assassinated. An entire generation of our greatest liberal leaders was murdered in less than five years.

No one since has measured up to the charismatic, transformational greatness of these men. Barack Obama has come the closest, but rather than being assassinated, the anti-American far-right instead boxed him in, denying him any cooperation or bipartisanship in a concerted effort to stop him and sadly, progress.

The battle for basic human rights and needs (for ALL Americans) is still in doubt. And it's getting late out there.

[mia]

16. "The battle for basic human rights and needs (for ALL Americans) is still in doubt."

We were so filled with hope for our country back then.

[VOX]

17. Cable TV and the internet enabled the erasure of the gains made in the 60s and 70s.

Electronic media gave the right wing a voice it never had. They realized they had gained leverage, and that voice became a 24/7 shout. The lack of civility, empathy, and basic knowledge of how things work have all been exacerbated by the anti-intellectual, anti-science bleating of frightened, angry Americans who find scapegoating others easier than expending effort to improve things. The concept of working toward some greater good is completely absent.

I'm hoping that the current mess represents the high-tide of our cultural darkness, and that balance and rationality will return at some point, before the destruction is too extensive. But each day brings another loss, another blow to democracy. Time is short.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. K&R

I was in 1st grade when this happened and we had an assembly the next day to memorialize him.

[Soxfan58]

8. America needs you Dr. King.

A true peaceful revolutionary, and Christian

[malaise]

9. K & R

June 20, 1965: Martin Luther King Jr. visits Jamaica

"If it falls to our luck to be street-sweepers, sweep the streets, like Raphael painted pictures, like Michaelangelo carved marble, like Shakespeare wrote poetry, and like Beethoven composed music. Sweep the streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth would have to pause and say ... ...Here lived a great street sweeper"
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., June 20, 1965, Kingston, Jamaica

http://old.jamaica-gleaner.com/pages/history/story003.html

[mountain grammy]

14. Wow, thank you Malaise

Loved that article, especially this:

Professor Patrick Bryan, then a graduating student in liberal arts and now a professor of history at the UWI, remembers that Dr. King may have spoken for close to 40 minutes but that it seemed like five. "It was an incredible experience to hear so strong and commanding a speaker ­ it was as if you were entranced when listening to him," Prof. Bryan added. "He used no notes and talked without a hitch."

I never got the chance to see him in person, but I could listen to him all day long.

[malaise]

15. MLK, both Winnie and Nelson Mandela and Obama

have all spoken in that Assembly Hall at UWI, Mona.

[yallerdawg]

11. Alabama today: The first and only time I saw Hillary Clinton in person...

was at the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church in 2016.

The first and only time I saw Barack Obama in person was at the 50th Anniversary Selma Bridge Crossing in 2015.

What Dr. King did continues to reverberate through history and impact us in this moment of our lives.

[mia]

12. What a beautiful memorial.

Thanks for sharing the image.

[mountain grammy]

13. "All we say to America is be true to what you said on paper"

Thank you for posting.. Never can get enough.