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Post by Aba21 on Jan 17, 2003 13:34:05 GMT -5
Great, great thread about a great great man!! Another one of those facts Earthangel and IRLM like: I was born and raised in Wash. DC and was there with my parents for the I Have A Dream Speech. I remember that I never saw so may people in my life and I was scared. It was hotter than July too! Well mainly cause it was August!  We were on the side way back nreat r the reflecting pool and really couldn't see him but we heard him and as young as I was, I was still affected by the speech. I saw people crying tears of joy. It was fabulous. |
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Post by iratherlikeme on Jan 17, 2003 13:41:03 GMT -5
You sure have done and heard a lot in your years, Aba. The march on Washington is just one of many things I wish I had been able to experience. Just having that memory must be so awesome for you.
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Post by Dbaby on Jan 17, 2003 19:27:04 GMT -5
(((MLK)))
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Post by Aba21 on Jan 18, 2003 0:12:57 GMT -5
I keep telling you that you will have those same kinds of things in your life. I so miss NY that on 9-11 it was the first time I had started looking at Good Morning America again just to have some idea of what was going on in the city since I moved to Texas and the disaster strikes. I was so hurt that I was not there with all the family and friends I still have there including my son and daughter that I cried all day. I just couldn't believe that I had lived there for the last 25 years and was not there on the most important day in our lives. I was not there for Pearl Harbor but it coudn't have been worse than 9-11.
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Post by earthangel on Jan 18, 2003 0:26:12 GMT -5
Aba, you were there for that famous speech!  . Wow! I'm so happy you can share all this great stuff with us. I went to New York for the first time in my life the summer before 9-11 and got a good picture of the Twin Towers beofre the tragedy. But back to MLKJr., I agree with IRLM. There aren't as many leaders who have to stand as boldly as he did. |
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Post by sukkafu on Jan 19, 2003 4:21:20 GMT -5
well, ivory ,it was definitely on my mind but i figured you'd take the ball and run with it! here are some suggestions for movies to watch for your mlk jr day and for black history month coming up . 1-boycott-with jeffrey wright and carmen ejogo- (i did a post about it in the summer)-outstanding performances-bus boycott in montgomery 2- ***our friend martin***-we have this tape- has travolta, bassett, asner, whoopi, glover, samuel l., james earl, levar, ashley judd, sarandon, jaleel white, robert ri'chard, adam wylie, dexter + yolanda king, music by salt n pepa and bryan mcknight, -terrific 60 minutes !blends real footage with animation 3-king-the miniseries-paul winfield-terrific acting 4-the boy king-howard rollins-mlk as a youth 5-rosa parks story-angela bassett-great story 6-king-a filmed record-from montgomery to memphis 7-autobiography of miss jane pittman-cicely tyson 8-separate but equal- with sidney poitier as thurgood marshall winning the case before the supreme court -brown vs. the board of educ. of topeka ks. 1954 9-for us the living-the medgar evers story-howard rollins - tragic story of the civil rights activist 10-roots and roots II - INCREDIBLE SERIES-ALL TIME CLASSIC -HAVE SEEN IT ENTIRELY 10 TIMES NOW. i truly believe that he was a great man. i was deeply shocked as a 10 yr old when he was killed. the sad thing to me and the african/americans i am married to/associated with is that folks are more worried about whether every city has a martin luther king jr. freeway or blvd. or bridge, and not so much worried about living and improving their lives as dr. king did. if he were alive today he would not want those sign posts but he would want his imprint on the lives of young black men and women to make a difference in a righteous way. i don't think rev. king would be happy with the direction things are going with racism and how african americans are making less inroads academically and economically and politically than 30 yrs ago. |
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Post by tdallasw on Jan 20, 2003 1:52:49 GMT -5
ABA21 - I, too was at the March on Washington in '63 with my parents. I don't remember too much about it - just the crowds and some of the singing - and the HEAT!! I was only 6 and a half at the time. My parents tried to make sure I knew the importance of the event and to listen during Dr. King's speech. I remember the expressions on people's faces more than anything else about it. They seemed to be in awe.
I grew up in the DC suburbs - near Cheverly, MD - where Dave Bing is from. I graduated from Fairmont Heights High School in '74.
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Post by sukkafu on Jan 20, 2003 2:28:49 GMT -5
tdalgalpal, you and aba are very fortunate to have witnessed a very powerful moment in our nation's history. by the way you and aba conduct yourselves , i feel dr. king would be proud of you both. i know i am proud to be asscoiated with you both. not because you were at the mall in '63 but because you are who you are.  |
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Post by tdallasw on Jan 20, 2003 2:39:47 GMT -5
sukkafu- I think Dr. King would have been proud to know all of the regular posters associated with this board. His famous line about people being judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character could have been written about us. The regular members of this board are all caring, warm, intelligent people who are interested not only in the Tempts music, but in spirituality, social justice, education, etc. I am proud to be a part of this special group.  ;D |
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Post by Aba21 on Jan 20, 2003 2:48:12 GMT -5
Ok TD...I went to Mckinley Tech Nigh School. I lived in NE and my parents are in the same house off Brentwood Road down the street from BET studios.
And by the way....very beautifully said were your last comments on this group and I concur with your thoughts.
And suk...where would we be without each other. I think we compliment each other nicely on this board and even our disa greements are done with style and class.
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Post by sukkafu on Jan 20, 2003 3:06:54 GMT -5
i vow to always keep prejudice and bigotry out and love and honor all folks in. not just mlk day but every day. |
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Post by earthangel on Jan 20, 2003 12:11:38 GMT -5
At church yesterday they made this song especially for Martin Luther King, Jr. ANd they had slides of Martin and his achievements playing behind the choir. It was nice. And then yesterday on the Disney channel there was this realy good movie on called "Selma, Lord, Selma". It was good, and not just for kids!!! ;D
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Post by Ivory Fair on Jan 20, 2003 14:34:01 GMT -5
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Post by Ivory Fair on Jan 20, 2003 14:41:33 GMT -5
Don't feel bad if you don't. I wouldn't have known the names of many of them either. But they are just a few of the many people who paid for, with their own blood, the freedoms we so easily take for granted today. From top to bottom..... JAMES EARL CHANEY, ANDREW GOODMAN, and MICHAEL HENRY SCHWERNER, young civil rights workers, were arrested by a deputy sheriff and then released into the hands of Klansmen who had plotted their murders. They were shot, and their bodies were buried in an earthen dam. JUNE 21, 1964 -- Philadelphia, Miss. REV. GEORGE LEE, one of the first black people registered to vote in Humphreys County, used his pulpit and his printing press to urge others to vote. White officials offered Lee protection on the condition he end his voter registration efforts, but Lee refused and was murdered. MAY 7, 1955 -- Belzoni, Miss. MEDGAR EVERS, who directed NAACP operations in Mississippi, was leading a campaign for integration in Jackson when he was shot and killed by a sniper at his home. JUNE 12, 1963 -- Jackson, Miss. REV. JAMES REEB, a Unitarian minister from Boston, was among many white clergyman who joined the Selma marchers after the attack by state troopers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Reeb was beaten to death by white men while he walked down a Selma street. MARCH 11, 1965 -- Selma, Ala. VIOLA GREG LIUZZO, a housewife and mother from Detroit, drove alone to Alabama to help with the Selma march after seeing televised reports of the attack at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. She was driving marchers back to Selma from Montgomery when she was shot and killed by a Klansmen in a passing car. MARCH 25, 1965 -- Selma Highway, Ala. JONATHAN MYRICK DANIELS, an Episcopal Seminary student in Boston, had come to Alabama to help with black voter registration in Lowndes County. He was arrested at a demonstration, jailed in Hayneville and then suddenly released. Moments after his release, he was shot to death by a deputy sheriff. AUGUST 20, 1965 -- Hayneville, Ala. ADDIE MAE COLLINS, DENISE MCNAIR, CAROLE ROBERTSON and CYNTHIA WESLEY were getting ready for church services when a bomb exploded at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing all four of the school-age girls. The church had been a center for civil rights meetings and marches. SEPTEMBER 15, 1963 -- Birmingham, Ala. More info..... www.splcenter.org/cgi-bin/goframe.pl?refname=/centerinfo/lci-2.html |
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Post by sukkafu on Jan 20, 2003 16:01:10 GMT -5
and the saddest thing is that it continues today. we had that tom metzger evil guy that ran aryan nations out of fallbrook calif and was responsible for hate crimes and for the murders in seattle and portland-he's in jail, but the organization lives on.
we had that poor black man chased and killed in howard beach ny -a suburb of nyc-my aunt used to live there.we had that poor foreign black that was beaten terribly by the police in new york city area.
we had the rodney king beating-even though rodney is a loser, he didn't deserve the treatment he received.
we had that poor black fellow in texas dragged to death by the white men in the truck-wicked evil men.
it's not just blacks either. after 9/11, we had sikhs with turbans from india beating and killed or shot by ignorant evil folks thinking they were muslims responsible for the wtc destruction. we have latinos every day being treated like dirt by business owners that hire them illegally and pay them next to nothing. they live in cardboard camps and wash in the lagoon by carlsbad because they're homeless but they are good enough to pick fruits and veggies, but not good enough to be housed by these agribusiness owners.
we still have too much hatred, jealousy,and bigotry, and even some in our own hearts.
we need to constantly remember and refine our hearts and drive out the bad and hold fast to the good.
the holocaust-many ignorant people think that it was made up or a trick by the jews to divert attention from their plans for world domination and they run the world's banks.
we sure have a lot of work to do!
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