🚀 go-pugleaf

toto wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:51:27 +0000, John Hastings
> <jastings@invalid.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 18:57:46 +0000, Deeandre' Babydaddy
>><white_tax_dollars@cant_fix.me> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>What exactly did Martin Luther King Jr. do that warrant a national holiday?
> 
> 
> In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over
> six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing
> wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he
> wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led
> a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of
> the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience.
> and inspiring his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", a manifesto of the
> Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the
> registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on
> Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address,
> "l Have a Dream", he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and
> campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of
> twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five
> honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963;
> and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a
> world figure.
> 
> At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest
> man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his
> selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of
> $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.
> 
> On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his
> motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march
> in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was
> assassinated.
> 
> King was instrumental in showing the white people of this country
> exactly what the black man had to deal with in his every day life in
> terms of discrimination.  He received the Presidential Medal of Honor,
> one of the two highest civilian awards in the United States.  His *I
> Have a Dream* speech was on a par with Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
> There was NO rioting that day.  The March was peaceful and people of
> all races were involved in it.
>  
> 
> 
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Ironically, MLK wanted his children judged on the "content of their 
character".  Wonder how he's think they stacked up now?