Speaking of MLK

[sonrisa]

This came across my facebook feed. It's two or three years old, but relevant to today:

www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/29/1011562/-Most-of-you-have-no-idea-what-Martin-Luther-King-actually-did#

[CurlyQ284]

Wow, that was really powerful. Thanks for sharing

[cville]

I read that too. It was so interesting, and reading it made me think about a lot of sort of ignorant benevolence going on with the co-opting of historical figures for general feel good sentiments.

[pantsparty]

That was a great read, thank you for sharing.

[WOT?*]

Thank you for sharing that. It is well worth the read. I shared it on FB because it's well worth becoming viral, especially in my insulated, co-opting suburban community.

[W.T.Faulkner]

This was an interesting read.

One of the most interesting classes I ever took in college focused on the nonviolent practices of MLK and civil rights activists. The amount of training they had to go through over the course of MONTHS - and the sheer number of people they rejected from their demonstrations because they couldn't take the nonviolent aspect of it - was amazing to me.

These are aspects of history that should be in the books.

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Jan 20, 2014 12:53:47 GMT -5 W.T.Faulkner said:

This was an interesting read.

One of the most interesting classes I ever took in college focused on the nonviolent practices of MLK and civil rights activists. The amount of training they had to go through over the course of MONTHS - and the sheer number of people they rejected from their demonstrations because they couldn't take the nonviolent aspect of it - was amazing to me.

These are aspects of history that should be in the books.

I took a class very similar. My professor wrote a book about the nonviolent movement. It was really interesting read and one of my favorite classes. It's the reason I chose to concentrate mostly on the 1950s/1960s for my senior thesis/senior seminar.