MLK, Jr.
Apr 5 2008 23:26
I missed the anniversary of his assassination by a day, but I figure it's still worthwhile to post this very powerful speech given by Hal Draper. Reading about all those disgusting MLK speeches yesterday made me think of this.
Apr 7 2008 19:59
#2
cnn says the "king years" were 63-65. post-65 he was anti-imperialist and pro-working class struggle. in private he called himself a "democratic socialist." that's why the establishment turned their backs on him, fbi encouraged him to commit suicide and threatened him w/ blackmail.. read michael eric dyson for more.
Apr 7 2008 20:38
#3
Yeah if he had lived any longer he would have become increasingly anti capitalist. Too left for the state to lionize him.
Apr 8 2008 00:49
#4
His late speeches are already pretty anti capitalist, if I remember correctly. There is no doubt he was growing increasingly radical.
What is the Michael Eric Dyson book or article you are referring to, woundedhobo?
Apr 8 2008 04:46
#5
There is also that amazing speech he gave opposing Vietnam. Pretty damn radical. That being said, the organizations he founded were also notoriously patriarchal.
Apr 8 2008 08:15
#6
MD wrote:
Quote:
"I am only effective as long as there is a shadow on white America of the black man standing behind me with a Molotov cocktail.”Thats my favorite qoute from MLK. It shows that he knew what was up.
Do you know where that quote came from? I have heard that it is a fake.
Apr 8 2008 16:20
#7
Kim Muller: no, i took it from your blog. 
Apr 8 2008 18:18
#8
Hehe, good answer.
Nov 6 2008 16:24
#9
mikus, It's called "April 4, 1968" I believe or whatever day he was killed. The author is about the most left-wing person you will find on corporate TV. I guess it is because he is quite knowledgeable of a mainstream political figure, and brings up things that are not well known.
Nov 6 2008 17:25
#10
I'll go out on a fairly strong limb and say that quote is almost certainly fake. Google it and you won't find sources except blogs and forum comments, mostly from ALF types. Can anyone say when and where he is alleged to have said it?
Nov 20 2008 07:07
#11
Fred Hampton wrote:
Maybe you think that the pigs are going to be able to pressure you and put enough pressure to squash your movement even before it starts. But Martin Luther King said that he heard somewhere that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. And we're not worried about it being dark.
it should say "fred hampton spoke:" but i don't know how to make the quote function do that...
Nov 21 2008 13:23
#12
David in Atlanta wrote:
I'll go out on a fairly strong limb and say that quote is almost certainly fake.
it sounds very unlike him, so far as i know his stuff, which isn't very far
Nov 22 2008 01:25
#13
"My third reason moves to an even deeper level of awareness, for it grows out of my experience in the ghettoes of the North over the last three years -- especially the last three summers. As I have walked among the desperate, rejected and angry young men I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they asked -- and rightly so -- what about Vietnam? They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent."
-Martin Luther King, Jr
From his speech, "Beyond Viet Nam: A Time to Break Silence" on April 4th, 1967
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/058.html
He certainly insinuates that there is a time for fighting back.
The rest of the speech he talks about war and capitalism as well, definietly a good dose of the radical MLK; the one I never learned about in history class.
Thats my favorite qoute from MLK. It shows that he knew what was up.