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A great post, Jack
Posted by Cam Richardson | January 15, 2007 11:01 AM
Yeah, thanks. I've had news shows on all morning and here's the only place I got to hear --again-- the whole speech.
Sadly America's still writing NSF checks for payment on much of our promise.
Posted by Frank Dufay | January 15, 2007 11:35 AM
The bad check metaphor was so strong -- How many people in that crowd had bounced a check? -- but he was just getting warmed up, of course.
Posted by Jack Bog | January 15, 2007 5:38 PM
Isn't today also Many Happy Returns for Jack Bog?
Posted by Cynthia | January 15, 2007 9:08 PM
As much as I appreciate the iconic "Dream Speech", I suggest another speech to concentrate on today, in this time... 40 years later:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm
Thank You Jack.
Lew
Posted by LRF | January 15, 2007 10:04 PM
We quoted that one last year.
Posted by Jack Bog | January 16, 2007 12:42 AM
I don't have many regrets from my childhood, but one is declining to join some family friends on that March on Washington. (Though I did many such marches later, against the war.)
I DID see and hear King speak out against the Vietnam war at a demonstration at the UN...but it's always disappointing to me the "establishment" media never seems to "remember" that part of him, as we've turned MLK into a street across the country, but forget that he would be very, very opposed to this latest insanity we call the war in Iraq.
Posted by Frank Dufay | January 16, 2007 3:41 AM