From: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org (jangle-poets-digest) To: jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Subject: jangle-poets-digest V9 #144 Reply-To: jangle-poets@smoe.org Sender: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jangle-poets-digest Sunday, April 6 2008 Volume 09 : Number 144 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [JP] MLK 40 years later [Nieldsforever@aol.com] Re: [JP] MLK 40 years later [Rozettj@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 19:14:31 EDT From: Nieldsforever@aol.com Subject: [JP] MLK 40 years later It was a very powerful and emotional feeling for me, when so many dignitaries and news media lined up to cover the 40th anniversary of the King assassination in Memphis yesterday. TK have waxed eloquent on so many occasions regarding MLK Jr.'s importance to them and to America. "American Wish" from the new Better Dreams album reminds me of P&M's commitment to King's legacy -- Better Dreams coming in part from a place where "I Have a Dream" is venerated and where the future belongs to those who dare to colonize the dream of MLK. It would be a setback, I think, if America let the voices of discord raised by the Wright scandal forestall the next President from being a colonist of MLK Jr.'s dream. I don't accept that the militant Right has hijacked "stay the course" as a code-phrase for militancy, empire expansionism, and Executive Branch injustice. So I dare everyone who believes as MLK did, and as the Kennedys do, to "plant their sword in the sand," in whatever way is appropriate for them, as a spiritually militant expression of defiance of the militant Right, empire expansionism, and governmental overreaching -- to "Stand" with MLK in the cause of justice -- and to "stay the course" of his legacy in the dream, as co-colonizers of the dream, together. Bruce Check out the Kennedys' Official Home Page: http://www.KennedysMusic.com/ Fab photos, the Official tour diary, dashboard Buddha haiku, groovy merchandise...what more could you ask for? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 20:15:34 EDT From: Rozettj@aol.com Subject: Re: [JP] MLK 40 years later robert kennedy in 1968 often used this george bernard shaw quote: Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. tj Check out the Kennedys' Official Home Page: http://www.KennedysMusic.com/ Fab photos, the Official tour diary, dashboard Buddha haiku, groovy merchandise...what more could you ask for? ------------------------------ End of jangle-poets-digest V9 #144 **********************************