Leadership
Today is Martin Luther King Day.
CBC Radio One, bless it's wee heart, played the famous few minutes of MLK's "dream" speech as I laid in bed this morning.
We've all heard the speech before, but it was great to hear some of it again.
One thing is boldly evident with each stunning "I have a dream...". The man was an incredible threat to the ruling class of the United States of America -- an oratory skill in a leader of the most real kind, that would surely have, if not cancelled early, changed history. Some slopey-headed cracker mighta pulled the trigger, but there were surely an awful lot of white, status quo fingers on the trigger. I'm not saying MLK was killed by the CIA or FBI (although I believe it), I'm just saying if James Earl Ray hadn't of done it, I think another killer would have come along.
If you've got a spell, you might also read this letter MLK wrote while in jail for peaceful protesting: http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/popular_requests/frequentdocs/birmingham.pdf
During a federal election campaign here, listening to Martin Luther King, reading him, just makes a soul yearn that much more for leadership from among a group of wannabe CFO/Prime Ministers.
CBC Radio One, bless it's wee heart, played the famous few minutes of MLK's "dream" speech as I laid in bed this morning.
We've all heard the speech before, but it was great to hear some of it again.
One thing is boldly evident with each stunning "I have a dream...". The man was an incredible threat to the ruling class of the United States of America -- an oratory skill in a leader of the most real kind, that would surely have, if not cancelled early, changed history. Some slopey-headed cracker mighta pulled the trigger, but there were surely an awful lot of white, status quo fingers on the trigger. I'm not saying MLK was killed by the CIA or FBI (although I believe it), I'm just saying if James Earl Ray hadn't of done it, I think another killer would have come along.
If you've got a spell, you might also read this letter MLK wrote while in jail for peaceful protesting: http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/popular_requests/frequentdocs/birmingham.pdf
During a federal election campaign here, listening to Martin Luther King, reading him, just makes a soul yearn that much more for leadership from among a group of wannabe CFO/Prime Ministers.
posted by Heipel at
10:41 AM
4 Comments:
He was pretty amazing. I heard a snippet of another of his speeches incorporated into a song the other day and the phrase gave me chills. Not a common skill, that man's.
And he did change history - or as he saw it, current events - so I'm not that afflicted by the couldabins.
yes..he was great guy...
Yeah, but isn't this gross: The Washington Post reports that the King family estate is trying to enforce copyright over the speech, meaning that many young people might never hear it.
More here.
I loved "I dreamed a dream" from Les Miz... Didn't know that MLK wrote it.
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