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January 18, 2008 at 11:01:14

Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

by Abdus Sattar Ghazali Page 2 of 2 page(s)

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Unwittingly, Senator Hillary Clinton undermined the struggle of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King when she said that King's dream of racial equality was realized only when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Her comments were taken by many as a suggestion that the real change that came not through King but through a Washington politician.

Still we have a long way to go to achieve King's dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

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Musician and writer, who has lived and worked on all the continents and whose articles on media have been published in China, Italy, England and the US, and now resides in New York City.
Jay JansonMusician and writer, who has lived and worked on all the continents and whose articles on media have been published in China, Italy, England and the US, and now resides in New York City.

Ghazali helps media bury 1967 Anti-US imperialism wars King

How many elections have passed since King's assassination - elections without a Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. candidacy for president? Barack Obama, as Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Shirley Chisholm and Moseley Braun before him will not be quoting from speeches Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King made during the last year of his life. King's condemnation of a murderous U.S. foreign policy, of imperialism and international predatory capitalism would not be acceptable in an election process TV programmed by conglomerate owned media.

Confining praising Rev. King Jr. as the great leader of the U.S. civil rights movement is what is acceptable. Every candidate will compete to praise King in order to prove a laudable stand on civil rights.

One can expect to hear nothing of King's blistering criticism of the massive loss of life in the nations suffering U.S. military wars of occupation and its connection to the civil rights abuses at home.

During the past year OpEdNews has highlighted nine Jay Janson articles which review King's, now media buried, thundering pronouncements in context with current events Rev. King was not permitted to live to speak about. NONE are about civil rights! The articles are listed below, each with URL to conveniently click on:

Yesterday's OPN has a review of 9 post '67 King articles, none speak to Civil Rights.

by Jay Janson (83 articles, 0 quicklinks, 6 diaries, 93 comments) on Friday, January 18, 2008 at 6:39:24 PM