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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: hobo who wrote (971)	1/15/2001 1:15:33 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I do like that, thank you very much. It would certainly be a peaceful planet if there were a million more like me- after we had killed and eaten everyone else.

To: hobo who wrote (971)	1/15/2001 11:13:21 AM
From: hobo	Respond to of 82486

ahem..... an on topic grub to celebrate. washingtonpost.com King Day 2001 Monday, January 15, 2001; Page A20 MORE THAN THREE decades after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., whose special holiday is celebrated today, thousands of Americans across the country will honor him in song, recitations of his speeches and through a day of community service. Others, though, will be reliving old injustices and protesting fresh grievances and perceived wrongs. For instance, on this King Day, civil rights groups are planning marches and rallies across the nation to protest the Supreme Court's ruling in the Florida presidential election dispute. If the protests come off as planned, they will continue through the week, ending in a large demonstration on the day George W. Bush is inaugurated 43rd president of the United States. This is a dispiriting turn of events in a nation that has made great strides in ending old and ugly divisions since Dr. King, an apostle of reconciliation, was murdered. There is no way of knowing what the slain civil rights leader would have to say about today's current political and social landscape -- whether he would endorse all of the actions that will be undertaken in his name today and for the remainder of the week. This much is true, however: America in 2001 is a far different country from that which existed when Martin Luther King was born 72 years ago or even when he was killed in 1968. We can imagine that Dr. King would agree with that view. He would be pleased with the rights and constitutional protections that have been extended to all Americans since the civil rights movement. He would be heartened that the more brutal manifestations of racial bigotry are in far less evidence today. He would be proud of the growing numbers of African Americans and other minorities who have joined the nation's middle- and upper-income classes in the past three decades. But we can't imagine that Martin Luther King would be satisfied with the persistence of prejudice or today's dismaying retreat into the identity of race and ethnicity. We are confident he would not find acceptable the economic divide still separating haves from have nots. We don't believe he would take any comfort in the estrangement and mistrust so apparent between vast numbers of African Americans and the nation's new leaders. And he probably would be dismayed by the extent to which prominent civil rights proponents have allowed themselves to become more identified as politically partisan acolytes than self-determining crusaders for equal opportunity. Dr. King fought tenaciously for justice, but he demonized no one. He gave no quarter to racism, but he believed in the power of love as a transforming force. We doubt that he would resign himself to today's failings any more than he would have given up on his dream, "that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed." Achieving that end, King Day 2001 reminds us, is never-ending work. © 2001 The Washington Post Company