Could it be anyone else today? Don't forget his legacy goes way beyond race. The full measure of his work also involved poverty, peace, class, ... AP via MSNBC reports Tributes to MLK tend to ignore his complexity: Historians say King was far from revered as he pushed activism beyond race. Professor Harvard Sitkoff, one of the academics cited by the AP, has a new work on Dr. King which seems like a solid addition to the scholarship. P/WNearly 50 years in east Alabama, a surname going back to Vikings invading Scotland, and finally too much religious fundamentalism coupled to reactionary radicalism motivates me. I'll share (rarely as of late) my ideas on politics, learning, ... My clan supposedly uses "Peace ... or War!" Maybe those genes compel me to join issue? (Propservralism = PRogressivism + pOPulism + conSERVatism + libeRAL + pragmatISM) Respectfully, John Gunn
Monday, January 21, 2008
Highlander of the Day ~ Dr. Martin Luther King
Could it be anyone else today? Don't forget his legacy goes way beyond race. The full measure of his work also involved poverty, peace, class, ... AP via MSNBC reports Tributes to MLK tend to ignore his complexity: Historians say King was far from revered as he pushed activism beyond race. Professor Harvard Sitkoff, one of the academics cited by the AP, has a new work on Dr. King which seems like a solid addition to the scholarship. P/W
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