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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (68330)	1/18/2010 4:39:43 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Tejek is right on this, imo. and I am glad he is making calls. and for some reason this section from the article on MLK comes to mind... It's thoughts like those that made him decidedly less popular at the time of his death than today. The bloom started to wear off King's media rose when he turned his attention to Northern racism. The central defense Southern segregationists offered when thrust on the national stage was that their Jim Crow was no more of a brute than the North's. King agreed, and in announcing his organization's move into Chicago, he called the North's urban ghettos "a system of internal colonialism not unlike the exploitation of the Congo by Belgium." And he named names, pointing to racist unions as one of a dozen institutions conspiring to strip-mine black communities. So much for "inspirational." But then, like now, nobody wanted to hear such talk -- only the black press paid any attention. Later, when a white mob hurled bricks and cherry bombs at marchers in Chicago, King told reporters that the scene outdid anything below the Mason-Dixon Line. "I have never in my life seen such hate," biographer Taylor Branch quotes him as saying. "Not in Mississippi or Alabama." do you recall the days of busing? the mayhem in South Boston? is that true blue state really blue or not? we shall find out tomorrow. but if they vote in Brown and healthcare goes down, and judges are blocked, and dadt stays in place... and all the rest... it won't be on our door anymore. blue/red good/bad my ass.