NYT: Protesters at King March Oppose Air Force Flyover

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Protesters at King March Oppose Air Force Flyover
By TIM EATON
Published: January 17, 2006


SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 16 - Protesters wore yellow and black armbands and chanted during speeches Monday in disapproval of the inclusion of Air Force jets at the end of this military city's 20th annual march honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Activists had threatened to boycott the march, but 100,000 people turned out as expected.

The protesters said Dr. King, who opposed the war in Vietnam and dedicated his life to nonviolence, would not have supported the display of military muscle. Supporters of the flyover by T-1 training jets from 99th Training Squadron from nearby Randolph Air Force Base pointed to the squadron's direct lineage to the Tuskegee Airmen, the country's first group of black military pilots....

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City Councilwoman Sheila McNeil, who was the honorary M.L.K. March chairwoman for the city's M.L.K. Commission, was part of the effort that invited the 99th Training Squadron to fly over the city, which she called "Military City, U.S.A."...

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Dr. King regularly worked with the military during events promoting racial equality, she said. It was National Guardsmen who escorted black students into once segregated schools in the South in the 1950's and 1960's, Ms. McNeil added....


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/17/national/17king.html

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1. Well... MLK Opposed the Military War Machine

It's not as if they don't know this. This will be seen as disrespectful to those who know or knew MLK.

[robbedvoter]

2. "worked with the military?" Doubt it. maybe with soldiers.

It's the same double-speak they do with "support the troops?