REQUEST: Martin Luther King, Jr. speech that got WHITE FOLKS mad! Anybody?

[kefta]

^^^^ Thank you Sir!

 

[kefta]

Wow, never knew about this. Thanks for posting it.

 

[O.Red]

http://www.clipconverter.cc/

 

[jblaque]

Great find! This speech shows how many layers this man had, and that he really wasn't any different than Malcolm was.

 

[trstar]

bookmarked.

 

[UniqueStyles82]

THIS SERMON IS CALLED THE DRUM MAJOR INSTINCT. LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT IT. AND WE ARE CAUGHT UP IN THIS NOW. WE ARE ATTACKING POOR PEOPLE ALL AROUND THE WORLD WHO ARE JUST TRYING TO SURVIVE AND ARE NO REAL THREAT TO US. THE REAL THREAT IS THE COUNTRY THAT WE LIVE IN. THEY US CHEMICALS TO CONTROL US. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OGL1BJPB

C/S on that sermon. I actually posted the drum major instinct in kaya's thread about mlk. That sermon was thee best sermon I heard from mlk but my angle for liking it might be somewhat different from yours.

Ultimately, the US govt which is run by predominantly white folks hate when they are called out by others (especially their own citizens) when they are in wrong and everybody knows it. Our govt will go to great lengths no matter how many people have to die, how much money has to be wasted, how many coups and assassinations are executed, how many foreign sovereign countries have to be taken over, etc. just for them to say "HA, see we were right afterall."

 

[CoochieMonster]

BUMP

I disagree with this idea but would love to hear King's logic.

Why disagree? Actually no person should align themselves with only one party. Those who do are giving away their own freedom to vote by limiting who they can vote for.

 

[pookie]

I agree with you uniquestyles82. The world's best kept secret is that our health is our only real wealth. We have been living off of chemicals that they use to control us with. The suffering and tragedy of jones town was an example of being controlled with out knowing it. We are just like the people in jones town.
As long as they control us they will always be right and able to make what ever wrong they do look right.
The garden of eden is one way and we are forced to follow them the other way.
According to the black people that live in africa and the middle east. The true story of genesis as it has been passed down from generation to generation goes like this. In the beginning there was only black people here. And life was more modern in the begining than it is now. Also we lived as gods. Even animals obeyed us. Our only food was fruits, vegetables, and the miracle foods out of the bee hive. There was no such thing as incest. Because we was all one black family. It was a clothing optional society. If you wanted to wear clothes then you did, if not then you did not. But we did not have the social hang ups we have now like being ashamed of the body and lusting. Also we did not have any birth records because nobody was dying. Everything was eternal and perfect.
But out of all the people on the face of the earth, there was one female that was curious about killing a bird and using it for food. Until one day her curiosity over rode her and she killed a bird and ate it. Later on she felt guilty about it and blamed her guilt on sex. But this was the first time any human had ever ate the poisonous flesh. And this is how we as black people started going astray from being ourselves.
Yes there is a force that moves among us that is unseen. That force is the creator of white people and rules us thru them. There is a secret struggle for a black male to get control of himself and then win our women and children back. That is what my struggle is right now.
We will never be free as long as our mouth is in the white man's kitchen. Some of them have knowledge of how some of this stuff act and react in our system. If one person can overcome it, that person opens the door for all of us to overcome.
2'000 years ago one black man had started becoming himself. They finally got rid of him and confused everything about him and his works.
Today whoever do it again got to go all the way this time. Or else we will be at the point of no return.

 

[kefta]

Why disagree? Actually no person should align themselves with only one party. Those who do are giving away their own freedom to vote by limiting who they can vote for.

 

[kefta]

bookmarked.

 

[Blade Brown]

Good post!

 

[kefta]

^^^^ Yes!

 

[kefta]

bUMp for TRUTH!

 

[Art Vandelay]

Props!

Could someone also pull up the interview that he did in Chicago for WVON radio whereas He said He nor anyone else should bond themselves to one political party. I heard it on the radio earlier today. The 86+ percent of Blacks folks in America that vote straight Democratic every year need to hear that interview.

From a historical prospective that was a good thing.
But then what?



BTW...im trying to pull up the show that I listened to.
Its on a podcast.

Ever find it?

 

[ballscout1]

The I have a dream speech got them irate until they learned they could dilute the message by stealing the speech and making the only part of it that is known the very end when he seemed to promote harmony..

the majority of the speech was an indictment on the US and a call to action..

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.

We cannot walk alone.

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.

We cannot turn back.

There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: "For Whites Only." We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."¹

but the only part that was promoted was

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a 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."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."2

This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.

With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:

My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.

Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride,

From every mountainside, let freedom ring!

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.

And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

But not only that:

Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

Free at last! Free at last!

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!3

 

[kefta]

One Star racist/white supremacist bandit…

 

[Lexx Diamond]

Happy Birthday Doctor King