How fitting -
Jan. 17th, 2005 10:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyburgWe recognize a non-holiday today - in the midst of another unjustified conflict -
Thankfully, Rev. Martin Luther King left a large enough body of written, recorded work for us to remember him by.
Perhaps the more tragic recognition of reality took place when it became clear to me that the war was doing far more than devastating the hopes of the poor at home. It was sending their sons and their brothers and their husbands to fight and to die in extraordinarily high proportions relative to the rest of the population.
It's a speech given by Rev. Martin Luther King, 4 April 1967
Speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City -
"I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. I join with you in this meeting because I am in deepest agreement with the aims and work of the organization which has brought us together: Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam. The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart and I found myself in full accord when I read its opening lines: "A time comes when silence is betrayal." That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam."
I deeply resent being made to relive my political adolescence.
I still remember the day MLK was killed.
This country did not need another Vietnam.
This county has a president that doesn't care. And is as deaf as a post. And stupider. That, of course, is only my opinion.
And only 51% of this country voted for him.
Thankfully, Rev. Martin Luther King left a large enough body of written, recorded work for us to remember him by.
Perhaps the more tragic recognition of reality took place when it became clear to me that the war was doing far more than devastating the hopes of the poor at home. It was sending their sons and their brothers and their husbands to fight and to die in extraordinarily high proportions relative to the rest of the population.
It's a speech given by Rev. Martin Luther King, 4 April 1967
Speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City -
"I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. I join with you in this meeting because I am in deepest agreement with the aims and work of the organization which has brought us together: Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam. The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart and I found myself in full accord when I read its opening lines: "A time comes when silence is betrayal." That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam."
I deeply resent being made to relive my political adolescence.
I still remember the day MLK was killed.
This country did not need another Vietnam.
This county has a president that doesn't care. And is as deaf as a post. And stupider. That, of course, is only my opinion.
And only 51% of this country voted for him.
