THIS IS WHERE THE PARTY ENDS
Jan. 19th, 2010 02:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogSo it’s MLK Day in America, and I don’t have much to post that yr not already going to see and/or hear – the I Have A Dream Speech, selections from The Unforgettable Fire, the endless Obama references, possibly a Public Enemy video, etc.
So I thought I’d post this photo from 1959 in Little Rock, AR, to give a little visual illustration of just what MLK was up against – and why his dream ultimately cost him his life.
Obviously we’ve come a long way since then. Well, not all of us, obviously. But at least we’ve progressed to the point where everyone is racist except us, and anyone who says otherwise is playing the race card.
Or something. It’s complicated. Suffice to say that there’s still plenty of fear and loathing to go around in 2010 and beyond, and pretending the problem doesn't exist won't fix that.
Meanwhile, there’s probably a clever way to link from that to this video from They Might Be Giants about racism by association and how people tend to forgive their friend’s racist remarks as long as they were drunk when they said it. But I’ll be goddamned and dipped in jam if I can think of one.
So hit the music.
FACT: I have the MLK Dream speech on my iPod. It still moves me.
I know politics bore you,
This is dF
So I thought I’d post this photo from 1959 in Little Rock, AR, to give a little visual illustration of just what MLK was up against – and why his dream ultimately cost him his life.
Obviously we’ve come a long way since then. Well, not all of us, obviously. But at least we’ve progressed to the point where everyone is racist except us, and anyone who says otherwise is playing the race card.
Or something. It’s complicated. Suffice to say that there’s still plenty of fear and loathing to go around in 2010 and beyond, and pretending the problem doesn't exist won't fix that.
Meanwhile, there’s probably a clever way to link from that to this video from They Might Be Giants about racism by association and how people tend to forgive their friend’s racist remarks as long as they were drunk when they said it. But I’ll be goddamned and dipped in jam if I can think of one.
So hit the music.
FACT: I have the MLK Dream speech on my iPod. It still moves me.
I know politics bore you,
This is dF
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on 2010-01-18 06:25 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2010-01-19 01:25 am (UTC)And good to know yr not bored. :)
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on 2010-01-18 07:43 pm (UTC)Yes, Dr. King's Dream speech moves me as well.
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on 2010-01-18 10:29 pm (UTC)~M~