Dr. King was so effective that the benfits of his efforts produced results far beyond his untimely death.

He combined activism with progress.  Farrakhan, Jackson, and Sharpton seem to be stuck on the activism page, but seem to lack the positive, motivational, and inspirational qualities that Dr. King embodied.

I was with a group of guys in a VW Bus (a new one, without flowers all over it) driving through the deep south, traveling to Ft Lauderdale for spring break.

DEEP south and on HWY 301. I-95 did not go all the way from Patomac Maryland to Florida. 

Anyway, I remember.  

Where was I when MLK was killed? Trekking through the jungles of Vietnam. It was 2 weeks after the fact that I heard it.

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But I do know, that things are different since 40 yrs. ago and MLK's assasination. I think his assasination accelerated the process of improvement of Race relations in America. Race relations have Improved since 1968.  His JFK like death brought even more focus to the problems of Race in America. 

Evidently, Obama's income tax shows things have REALLY gotten Better for Black people in America, and looking at the REV. GD Wright's new house being Built, it REALLY has gotten better for Race Baiters and people who preach "hate America" Speeches from the pulpit.

Of Course, that only one measurement, capitalism . . . but Capitalism has a tendency to treat everyone equally.   If you build a better Race baiting mouse trap, some people will come to the door of your Church, and give you money.

Because MLK Jr. was for a colorblind society in which so-called racial leaders would not be necessary because race would not be an issue. 

He was for freedom, self-determination and tolerance.  There's no profit in those things for demagogues.  They thrive on dependency and racial tension.

MLK was the leader of a movement which would end when the goals were accomplished, the others are leaders of a cult which will never end as long as its leaders can keep its followers feeling oppressed and angry.

The BBC has an article up today, with the UN scientist admitting that there has been no warming after 1998. However, that dosn't stop him from pushing the warming theroy. I do think if they were hit in the head by a falling brick, they would still insist that the brick was still falling.

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I was a five-year-old at home with my mother--in Memphis, Tennessee. 

To say that we didn't tool around town that much that day is an understatement.  From my nebulous recollections and from what I was told later, many in the city holed up, concerned that whoever had shot Dr. King might be of a mind to shoot others, or that there might be large-scale rioting.

I remember hearing vile jokes about Dr. King in the following days, hearing people make stupid remarks about "one less" to worry about.

We've seen, in the post-King era, people who see social inequity as not a problem to be solved, but a job to be preserved.  Having read and studied Dr. King's work over the subsequent decades, I have always been persuaded that he wanted (for lack of a better term) to work himself out of a job.  That cannot be said of the Axis of Agitation, the triumvirate of Farrakhan, Sharpton, and Jackson.  These are individuals who do not seek solutions, only face-time.

Would things have been different had Dr. King survived?  I believe so.  He might have actually been able to influence Jesse Jackson away from becoming a publicity seeker.  He could definitely have undercut the advent of Al Sharpton.  And he would have been an effective political counterbalance against the radical Islam of Louis Farrakhan.

While I do not endorse the theology of Dr. King (there are questions about the most fundamental of his beliefs, such as whether or not he was even a Trinitarian), his measured social and political activism, had he been able to pursue it beyond 1968, would have been a net benefit to the country as a whole.

--Mike

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I was being born on this day 40 years ago. Don't have much recollection of that day :-)

By now, it has been pretty well established that Martin Luther King’s ‘dream’ to “….not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character….”, has turned into a nightmare.

Soon after his death, his ‘dream’ was high-jacked and turned on its head because, today, the color of ones skin and not their character is how one is judged.

In the beginning, blacks were told to keep their “eye on the prize” to attain success.

Their vision, however, has since wandered and the ‘prize’ has  past them by because they have been listening to white racists like Jackson and Sharpton who have set themselves up as moral authorities of race and who, for decades, have been promising blacks nirvana but producing nothing but hate.

Unfortunately, blacks have been looking to the wrong people for their success. If blacks want a person to help them attain success, they need only look in the mirror because they are the masters of their own fate not some 'shuck-n-jive-carnival-barkers' who have made being offended into a fine art and are only interested in increasing their own personal wealth.

Where was I 40 years ago? I was a 10 year-old in school in Canada.

Let us not forget that Rev. Dr. King was a Republican. How man other prominent men of color have been Republicans? I believe race relations would have been much different had he lived much longer with less dependence on welfare and blacks having even more leadership roles in business and politics -- but more on the right than the left.

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