MLK 2022

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In Bimini, an island in the Bahamas, Martin Luther King found a friend in Ansil Saunders. Four days before the assassination of MLK, they sat in Ansil's boat, sharing psalms while Dr King worked on his final speech - "I've Been to the Mountaintop." In the newest @coldcollaborative film, "Mighty Waters," Ansil visits the spot he had taken MLK as well as visits the global change he's seen and hopes to see in the world.

https://www.amff.org/mightywaters/

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watched this

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watched this

Thanks for the reference. Good stuff. I almost felt the needs to draw the drapes lest some of the red neck neighbors report me for promoting Critical Race Theory. 😁

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I think MLK would be absolutely disgusted with today's highly charged identity politics, which is about opposite of his dream of people seeing each other as simply other people, not people of a certain race first.

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also watched Boycott

Note: I have no idea why this is or should be age restricted.


As a yankee, I didn't experience segregation like it was in the south, and all I knew of it came from mainstream media coverage

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also watched Boycott

Note: I have no idea why this is or should be age restricted.


As a yankee, I didn't experience segregation like it was in the south, and all I knew of it came from mainstream media coverage

Likely age restricted because some folks prefer to restrict their childrens' education.

I grew up and was educated in Philadelphia so was more a Phillies fan than a Yankee. Attended parochial school through 12th grade. Our high school graduation class was about 700 young men and that included 3 black students. The school wasn't segregated, but the neighborhood was. The south surely doesn't  own racism.

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Last one for this year...

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well one thing led to another, and I ended up watching one more MLK video

MLK: The Assassination Tapes (Full Episode)

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I feel that if folks would live by their own perspective formed from what they see with their own eyes instead of tv news and social media, travel a little, and not be swayed so easily from the negativity smeared in their faces daily, that they'd realize the world isn't nearly as bad as it's portrayed to be, and the people in it aren't nearly as unhappy or nearly as aggressive toward one another as portrayed either.

We need to stop drinking the juice.

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follow up

Confronting history, to heal a nation
Attorney Bryan Stevenson, author of the bestseller "Just Mercy," has helped to save 145 wrongly-convicted prisoners from execution, but these days the man behind Montgomery, Alabama's National Memorial for Peace and Justice might be better known his other job: educating Americans about the legacy of slavery and racial violence in this country. Stevenson talks with correspondent David Pogue about confronting history as a first step in healing, and gives a tour of the brand new Legacy Museum in Montgomery.