Celebrating Dr. King
Because Verbal Jazz has today off, we thought it might be nice to pay tribute to the reason we have said day off: Martin Luther King, Jr. One only has to read a biography of Dr. King to realize just how strong and how committed he was to non-violence and how radical his approach was. It takes a good deal of strength to resist violence in the face of violence. Yesterday's Boondocks comic strip summed up how King would be viewed were he alive today: "[Bill] O'Reilly would call him an un-American leftist peacenik..."
Verbal Jazz highly recommends Let the Trumpet Sound, a biography of Dr. King. The "I Have a Dream" speech was only one moment in a life cut altogether too short.
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Because Verbal Jazz has today off, we thought it might be nice to pay tribute to the reason we have said day off: Martin Luther King, Jr. One only has to read a biography of Dr. King to realize just how strong and how committed he was to non-violence and how radical his approach was. It takes a good deal of strength to resist violence in the face of violence. Yesterday's Boondocks comic strip summed up how King would be viewed were he alive today: "[Bill] O'Reilly would call him an un-American leftist peacenik..."
Verbal Jazz highly recommends Let the Trumpet Sound, a biography of Dr. King. The "I Have a Dream" speech was only one moment in a life cut altogether too short.
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