The breadth of MLK’s heritage
I shall not forget.
“Everyone knows — even the smallest kid
knows about Martin Luther King — can say his most famous moment was that
‘I have a dream’ speech,” said Henry Louis Taylor Jr.,
professor of urban and regional planning. “No one can go further than one
sentence. All we know is that this guy had a dream. We
don’t know what that dream
was…”
King was working on anti-poverty and anti-war issues at the time of his death. He had spoken out against the Vietnam War and was in Memphis when he was killed in April 1968 in support of striking sanitation workers.
By taking on issues outside segregation, he had lost the support of many newspapers and magazines, and his relationship with the White House had suffered, said Harvard Sitkoff, a professor of history…
But he took on issues of poverty and militarism because he considered them vital “to make equality something real and not just racial brotherhood but equality in fact,” Sitkoff said.
“We’re living increasingly in a culture of top 10 lists, of celebrity biopics which simplify the past as entertainment or mythology,” said Richard Greenwald. “We lose a view on what real leadership is by compressing him down to one window.”
Folks still seem - most often - to want to deal with one issue at a time. So many - causes - of the effects that people challenge are interrelated.
King was working on anti-poverty and anti-war issues at the time of his death. He had spoken out against the Vietnam War and was in Memphis when he was killed in April 1968 in support of striking sanitation workers.
By taking on issues outside segregation, he had lost the support of many newspapers and magazines, and his relationship with the White House had suffered, said Harvard Sitkoff, a professor of history…
But he took on issues of poverty and militarism because he considered them vital “to make equality something real and not just racial brotherhood but equality in fact,” Sitkoff said.
“We’re living increasingly in a culture of top 10 lists, of celebrity biopics which simplify the past as entertainment or mythology,” said Richard Greenwald. “We lose a view on what real leadership is by compressing him down to one window.”
Folks still seem - most often - to want to deal with one issue at a time. So many - causes - of the effects that people challenge are interrelated.
Posted: Mon - January 21, 2008 at 11:31 AM