50 year MLK Dream: "tens of thousands gather at Lincoln Memorial"

[presence]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...-king/2693667/

WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands gathered early Saturday on the nation's "front yard," the National Mall near the Lincoln Memorial, yearning for a bit of that transcendent sense of racial unity heralded on this spot by the Rev. Martin Luther King 50 years ago in his "I Have a Dream" speech.

[BlackTerrel]

Would have loved to go. If I was East Coast I would have tried to make it.

[Christian Liberty]

That they do this at the Lincoln Memorial is downright disgusting.

I wouldn't have attended.

[compromise]

Rand Paul is like MLK without the socialism. In the future, hundreds of thousands will gather at the Jefferson memorial to commemorate him.

[BlackTerrel]

That they do this at the Lincoln Memorial is downright disgusting.

I wouldn't have attended.

Washington Memorial would have been more fitting?

[Christian Liberty]

Washington Memorial would have been more fitting?

I don't really like the concept of Memorials period, but the Lincoln Memorial is exceptionally disgusting because the man was a murderous tyrant.

[jdmyprez_deo_vindice]

I don't really like the concept of Memorials period, but the Lincoln Memorial is exceptionally disgusting because the man was a murderous tyrant.

Must spread some rep before giving it to you again.

[jdmyprez_deo_vindice]

Maybe next time they should find a Karl Marx memorial to hold it at.

[Antischism]

Maybe next time they should find a Karl Marx memorial to hold it at.

At least Karl Marx wasn't a murderer.

[MelissaWV]

Organizers expected 100,000 people to attend the rally and march from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument, passing by the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial.

This IS rather symbolic.

[enhanced_deficit]

Rand Paul is like MLK without the socialism.

Did MLK ever call Israeli blockade Palestinians an act of war or opposed US aid used to occupy Palestinian land?

if not, they are not same.

MLK probably would have seen Obama as a war criminal though. RP probably sees him that way too.

[Tywysog Cymru]

MLK probably would have seen Obama as a war criminal though. RP probably sees him that way too.

If MLK was alive today he would be hated by both main parties, and would have thought of Iraq and Afghanistan the same way he thought of Vietnam.

[BlackTerrel]

I don't really like the concept of Memorials period, but the Lincoln Memorial is exceptionally disgusting because the man was a murderous tyrant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...on_and_slavery

What was Washington?

Although Washington personally opposed the institution of slavery after the American Revolutionary War, he had no tolerance for slave revolts and in 1791 as President he authorized emergency financial and military relief to French slave owners in Haiti to suppress a slave rebellion.

Sending foreign aid to suppress a slave rebellion.

[BlackTerrel]

If MLK was alive today he would be hated by both main parties, and would have thought of Iraq and Afghanistan the same way he thought of Vietnam.

His views would probably be similar to those of his son - who spoke at this event.

[FrankRep]

At least Karl Marx wasn't a murderer.

His ideas lead to millions of deaths under the banner of Communism.

[Antischism]

His ideas lead to millions of deaths under the banner of Communism.

If you truly believe that, then you've never actually studied Marxism and believe a perverted version of Marxism under the banner of "communism" is true to its original form. That's like saying Jesus Christ is responsible for military interventionism or atrocities under his name/the name of God. That the inquisition means Christianity and Jesus stand for murder. It's a silly, ill-informed argument. Might as well believe that cronyism/corporatism is true capitalism if you're going to make this argument.

[Christian Liberty]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...on_and_slavery

What was Washington?



Sending foreign aid to suppress a slave rebellion.

A bad choice, but not even nearly the same scale.

If you truly believe that, then you've never actually studied Marxism and believe a perverted version of Marxism under the banner of "communism" is true to its original form. That's like saying Jesus Christ is responsible for military interventionism or atrocities under his name/the name of God. That the inquisition means Christianity and Jesus stand for murder. It's a silly, ill-informed argument. Might as well believe that cronyism/corporatism is true capitalism if you're going to make this argument.

While this is true, real communism would lead to mass starvation.

[bolil]

A bad choice, but not even nearly the same scale.


While this is true, real communism would lead to mass starvation.

Well, maybe. It has never really been tried.

[FrankRep]

If you truly believe that, then you've never actually studied Marxism and believe a perverted version of Marxism under the banner of "communism" is true to its original form. That's like saying Jesus Christ is responsible for military interventionism or atrocities under his name/the name of God. That the inquisition means Christianity and Jesus stand for murder. It's a silly, ill-informed argument. Might as well believe that cronyism/corporatism is true capitalism if you're going to make this argument.

I have read the Communist Manifesto many times and it's quite frightening.