rest in peace dr king.

Happy to say that im the first and i wish many more will comment on this legend that we see before us. Happy Martin Luther King Day may it be full of peace.

We need more people like Dr King. Great reminder CL. (The person who wrote FIRST is an a$$)

Come on people.

Who cares whether or not you commented first. Get over yourselves.

Do people not realize how pathetic and childish it looks trying to be first? SMH @ grown ass women acting the fool (especially when they ain’t even “first” anyway!)

That speeech is quite brilliant in terms of his oration. This is actually the first time I’ve heard it in full I’m ashamed to say.

Happy Martin Luther King day to everyone

thank you JC for having respect for dr king and not worried about being first. and as for “M E Renegade” you are a grown women, you know better. but i guess you still have much growing up to do if you are 33 on myspace. btw, we don’t need to see one thousand off pics of you in every picture on your myspace.

off: *office

RIP DR King.

Rest In Peace Dr. King. Thanks CL for posting his speech.

I just want to thank you CL for remembering and honoring a great man that started a movement that affects the way each and every one of us lives today. I’m just appalled that I looked at the TV guide this morning on my TV to see what if any special programming BET (our flagship black-own network) would have to educate, honor, and reverence Dr. King and much to my surprise, which i guess i shouldn’t have been, there is NONE!!! Nothing but 106 and Park and Keyshia Cole’s marathon. Even with all the political black-lash from last week about Clinton’s comment and a breakthrough election year with the first viable African-American candidate, it’s sad that it seems this day is truly forgotten or “just a dream” and we have already woken up.

Disagreements aside, may your gentle soul rest in peace, Brother MLK.

I’ve learned about this man all my life! I hope they play his movie today. R.I.P. Mr.King I Love you

God Bless this Soul of this great man!

Intersesting. I seen Good Morning America this am and seen MLK Jr. and his cousin on the air. That is it. There were no special programs on cable about MLK. Yes it is early in the am, but yet when Xmas was here I seen numerous xmas shows… Hmmm… just a observation…

THANKS CL FOR PUTTING THIS ON YOUR WEBSITE. I’VE LOOKED AT OTHER WEB SITES AND IT LIKE BUSINESS AS USUAL NO NOTHING ON THE WEBSITE THAT DISPLAYS THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MAN

THANKS SO MUCH UR THE BEST!!!!

THANKS DR. KING FOR ALL THAT YOU HAVE DONE

Dr. Martin Luther King was an incredible figure in out nation and in the world. May his legacy live on today and forever in all of our hearts.

HAPPY B-DAY DR.KING!!!
may u rest in peace.
we’ll both enjoy our special day 2getha!!!!!
–>>[[happy 19th b-day to me!!!!]]

I pray that Dr King is resting in peace, but the struggle still continues!!!!

Even though I think when this day comes people forget that this is just not a day off.Dr. King should be an inspiration to most.He did help pave the way and I have to say I’m for the part grateful.People done got it bad today and they just don’t know it.Reason why I have always respected those that came before me.If it wasn’t for this day you people will be working so please recognize why you are off today!!!RIP Dr. King.

R.I.P M.L.K

People now a days dont respect the things Martin Luther fought for, you see rappers using words like NIGGA in their lyrics, you see black people dissing white, chinese, latino people or other ways round, all the racial gangs shit. Look at what Martin Luther King did for us. He fullfilled his dream and we treat his dream like a piece of waste.

PEACE TO THE WORLD! EVERYONE IS EQUAL!

Thank You Dr. King and Family!

in Dr. King’s memory we should come together as a people and remember the fight for equal rights is still on…we should honor his dream and strive to better ourselves and for the ones coming after us.

What a GREAT man…RIP

Wish i could say rest in peace, but how can he since no one seemed to grasp that The Dream concept was based on all people coming together, rather than this new form of “civilized” separatism we got going on in this country. Can we really say we are finally getting along or have overcome, i mean racism has become this devilish creature with an almost cherubic face that strikes out at random in varying degrees to let ppl always remember that one day it may decide to take its true form again, and do something far more heinous than anything history has recorded.

While we take the time to remember the great king we should also keep in mind we still have a lot more to accomplish and we can all thank him (black, white, purple whatever) for paving the way…….

When I heard this speech I felt like crying
Happy Martin Luther King Day
May you and your wife have perfect rest

Thankyou! Dr. King For Speaking Out For Change! Civil Rights! Unity! Thankyou! For The Cemented Speech As Well As Your Cemented Character As You Stood Strong In The Rain Agaist Sticks And Stones. It Was Not Easy! You Did Not Give Up! And Because You Believe We Have The Ability To Believe And Dream…. Not Just For The Sake Of Dreaming, But For The Sake Of Knowing That If We Keep The Dream Alive It Will Come True. Happy Birthday And R I P!

RIP MLK just had a sociology exam today and one essay was about him. @maya u r not alone this is the first time i have heard the full speech.

I am so thankful for Dr. King and all the other civil rights activists. Without him there wouldn’t be life for us minorities as they are today. The sad thing about it all is that we do not take advantage of all the opportunities that we do have, especially the right to vote. Even if you are a convicted felon you can check to see of your voting rights can be restored. I heard it on the Michael Baisden show the other day.

R.I.P. Dr. King!

Please Aspire to BE BETTER my people!
Please impart greatness onto a young black child today, let them know that theres more to this life and our culture than money, and dances. Teach them about respect, honor, intergrity and ignite their minds with awareness of the content in their own characters.

Only 50 years ago we were “coloreds only”. DONT become so far removed from a history that is still so young. STOP stealing from eachother, killing eachother, disrespecting and degrading eachother. We are different, creative, complicated, beautiful people, -dark, light, big, tall, straight, gay,curly, coarse, broad, rich, old, young, poor, amazing…………IF WE DONT CELEBRATE EACHOTHER…WHO WILL??

I am so thankful to Dr. King for fighting for our rights. He went through lots of stress and hardships for equal rights of not just us African-Americans, but of all Americans. I admire his determinaton and dedication to the cause because not many people cared just as much as he did. Dr. King believed in the struggle so much that he knowingly gave his life. I say this because Dr. King received many threats on his life, Suffered several assaults, and his house was even bombed….. Yet and still he continued fighting because he truly believed in what he felt was his call of duty from God. I have so much repect for this outsanding man and I will be honoring him today by visiting the civil rights inistitute here in Birmingham, AL. It is the least I can do for a man who fought so hard for people like me.

As a side note, Dr. King was 39 when he was brutally murdered, yet his autopsy revealed that he had a heart of a 60 yr. old man. This was evident of how much stress he endured for the cause. So I hope people really and truly understand just how much he went through for others. He was a great man, He is truy appreciated by me!! R.I.P Dr. King

Thank You Dr.King! I know I wouldn’t be able to be on this computer right now if it weren’t for the sacrifices for my freedom. I wouldn’t be able to have teachers that (are white) and have them treat me the same as the white kids (although I had a couple of racist ones). And I know no matter what racism may come my way for being an intelligent black man in society itching to be successful, I will take it in stride and practice my own version of non-violence (shutting your ass down with words)….

Thanks Again Dr. King!

You know I noticed that unless it’s a tight space on a calendar or something “Martin Luther King Day is being whittled down to “MLK Day” not even “Dr. MLK Day”. I don’t know it kind of reminds me of the “X-mas” phase to take the “Christ” out of Christmas. Maybe it’s just me…

Oh and I love how all the white people in my school are overjoyed to get a day out of school and they didn’t know what holiday it was. I was really annoyed and felt like people should go through at least 12 years of off and on Civil Rights Study in school like I had to (coming from predominately black schools). I guess it’s really not in the Florida curriculum…

I love my black people! And I will try my best to not be another statistic…I hate them anyway…lol

~RKJ

Since MLK Day is a federal holiday I’m wondering why most people I know don’t even have the day off! How is that?? Companies treat it as if it isn’t a holiday at all.

I apologize Dr King.

For supporting a lot of negativity of blacks and things that dont reflect us in the light that u fought for us to be able to be portrayed in. I wasnt born in the generation where u fought for certain things for us so sometimes it is not as easy for me to be able to weed some of these things out of my life that you (and in the back of my mind i know) knew were so detrimental to the Black community.

However, I am making steps everyday to be a more positive contribution to our community and all the celebrities on this blog owe you so much from being able to carry these 20,000.00 bags and dresses to even being able to run and post on a web site such as this. I DON’T EVER WANT TO FORGET THAT.

THANK YOU

PAT

Happy Dr. Martin Luther King Day to everybody and many more. Remebering the struggle and that even though we’ve come along way we still have along way to go.

J. Thanks for posting this. Is there any way that we can post additional speeches - like the one he gave to the sanitation workers? It is important that we continue to discuss that MLK was not a simple bubbly non-violent character in our history who just wanted us all to get along…he was a profoundly intelligent, committed individual who was beyond his years in wisdom. AFTER the march on Washington and the civil rights act, MLK began to focus his energies on what he felt was the true divider of men, economics. He began to advocate that poor whites and poor blacks come together against their common oppressor. THIS is when they killed him. THIS is their true fear, that we will realize beyond their social constructions that we have more in common against the power structure than not. When he began to criticize the war and advocated that we and especially christians admonish the militarization of our policies….
I just want everyone to see the full picture that was the man. Suprisingly, there is a decent article on yahoo today about it…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/a...20/ap_on_re_us/mlk_legacy

@22 I agree, we are still very much seperate and unequal…primarily with regard to class and in conjunction with race

Beautitful speech.

Thanks M.L.K!!!

Its sad that I haven’t heard Dr. King’s full speech since I was in like 5th grade, as I sit here and look around at where I am we have sure made a lot of progress but I don’t think we have achieved the dream yet…. but i have faith that one day we will…

Thank you Dr. King…for your leadership, wisdom, courage and determination to fight for what was right! You are THE expamle of what leadership is and should be! May your soul rest in peace.

There is only 30 people that sent a comment.That is not a good thing today is a great mans birthday.martin luther king jr. didn’t care if you were black,white,japan,he didn’t care if you were from newyork,or mississippi.He just wanted for everybody to get along and love each other.Bot I really have to tell you this people there are still people out there who is raceist if you didn’t know.So just remember mr.king was a great man.rest in peace to dr.matin luthr king jr.

There is only 37 people that sent a comment.That is not a good thing today is a great mans birthday.martin luther king jr. didn’t care if you were black,white,japan,he didn’t care if you were from newyork,or mississippi.He just wanted for everybody to get along and love each other.Bot I really have to tell you this people there are still people out there who is raceist if you didn’t know.So just remember mr.king was a great man.rest in peace to dr.matin luthr king jr.

Rest in Peace Dr. King,
Thank you for sacrificing your life that I may have every liberty to undertake anything that I choose to do in my lifetime. His time in history echoes a world when blacks worked together for a common cause and that is ensure our present-day freedoms. Young people must realize this and stop the hatred, crime, and killing that have and continues to make Dr. King’s dream to be one in vain but rather rise up and take advantage of all the opportunities that he and many others fervently fought for.

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thank GOD ! for MR. King

long live his legacy! R.I.P MLK Jr

We love you, Dr. King. Thank you so much for making me feel proud as an African American. Though your dream has not been achieved yet, you really did open a lot of doors. You are greatly appreciated not only for blacks, but others of different race as well. Racism will most likely and unfortunately always be around. It’s not just against African American’s, either. But hopefully one day the pricks who are racist, will someday open their eyes, and realize that skin color doesn’t matter. I never even understood the point in racism.

R.I.P to one of the greatest leaders of all time.

We love you, brotha.

@19…right on

Dr.King spoke for people to realize that we are all one. It seems like we only remember him for helping stop segregration. Yes, OUR dream came true. We are not treated as poorly like before, and yes, we are able to send our children to school with other children of many races, get better jobs, the opportunity doesn’t stop, but that shouldn’t be where it stops. We should remember what he said, we’re all one. We’re the same no matter what race we are. So for the rappers steady dissin’ the whites, the message King sent, may not be coming as clear.

Thank You J. Dakar for posting this, MLK was a truly amazing individual.

Happy MLK Day to everyone. I just want to give thanks for Dr. King bc of his legacy and sacrifice, I am able to accomplish so many of my dreams and aspirations. Thanks to the CL Family for the great and inspirational post!

What happened to the unity that black folks had at that time? We don’t need another leader we just need to check ourselves.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DR. KING

YOU ARE ONE OF THE GREATEST EXAMPLES OF LOVE, FAITH, AND HOPE

I LOVE DR. KING

happy b-day M.L.K. you are an inspiration on all black ppl thank you

@47 don’t think it was all rosy back then. Especially after folks started dying in protests even during the bus boycott you had black leadership and many black folks that spoke against king and refused to support him. They felt he was going about things wrong, and was too ambitious, etc, etc…there were a number of reasons, but King was certainly NOT loved by all when he was making waves.

I think this is great what you are doing! I love this site, not only for it’s entertainment updates - but I love the fact that you reach such a young audience with info about black history, current events, and politics! keep it up!

I think this is great what you are doing! I love this site, not only for it’s entertainment updates - but I love the fact that you reach such a young audience with info about black history, current events, and politics! keep it up!

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I still get the chills whenever I hear this speech. I wish my people would ban together like they did in the 60’s.

RIP Dr. King, though your lessons are slowly fading away in our community, Thank you for everything.

I thank God for MLK and all that he did, but for some reason he just scares me (I think b/c I always see him being so serious and stern… which I understand why, but still…). Anyway, he will never be forgotten.

Happy MLK day! He was a great man with a message, who’s life was cut short. He had a dream, and it is up to us, to fufill it for him.

Listening to this speech, it feels more and more powerful as the years go by.

HAPPY BDAY DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

happy MLK day!! i truly am thankful for all that he’s done…i know i should show it more though. it’s just great to be reminded of a great man who did so much for what we have today ;]

Wonderful speech!!

R.I.P MLK

RIP Dr King. A true icon and a legacy that will last forever.

I truly hope one day his dream becomes a reality. It’s very sad that this society is still riddled in racism and hatred. What’s more is that too many black men and women are wasting their lives, dropping out of school, unemployed, cracked out, single parents. It truly SICKENS me that networks like BET or rappers, and all the other media stereotypes perpetuated by blacks themselves, show no respect for the man who gave his LIFE for them. It’s sad, because there are probably black kids out there who know of 50 Cent or the names of video hoes, but don’t know about MLK and what a huge impact he made on American history.

Thankfully there are still blacks out there who are doing nothing but positive work, like Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama. People like them are the types who Dr King envisioned as the future movers and shakers of the United States.

I hope these so-called n****s and b****s, as they so sickeningly self-proclaim, take some time out and realise what he did for them. Instead of throwing their lives away in favour of misguided materialism, they should remember the great man who fought for their anscestors’ freedom and liberties.

Dr King, you were a great person, thank you!

happy b-day
R.I.P

aint this nice its too bad that most people dont even remember why they dont work or are off from school today.

R.I.P Dr Martin Luther King.

Well I hope we can all try to be better people and use this day as a remembrance of Dr. King. BTW his Bday isn’t today.

HAPPY MLK DAY!!!!!!

Why are people saying RIP when this is his BIRTHDAY we are celebrating?

everyone needs to watch “Martin’s” speech from The Boondocks

Preach on #62 (Greatestloveofall). I agree with everything you said.

Much respect and love for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We have come a long way since times of slavery and racial inequality. However we still have a way to go, considering the subtle prejudice, negative stereotypes of blacks, poverty that still exists today.There are still too many black men who are in prison and too many black people who aren’t using the opportunity to get an education. Not to mention the number of blacks who tear each other down whether be them perpetuating the light/dark issue, or calling each other n*ggas, b*tches, h*es, etc. BET (Black Explotation Television) should ashamed of themselves.

@Greatestloveofall

“What’s more is that too many black men and women are wasting their lives, dropping out of school, unemployed, cracked out, single parents.”

You almost sound intelligent. Including single parents in your list is just plain ignorant and judgemental. I’m pretty sure Dr. King didn’t want us to think we are better than others. Marinate on that! There are many single parents who have raised productive children. President Clinton was a product of a single parent. I don’t his mother feels as though she wasted her life.

WOW! Where are the “usual suspects” that try to hate on MLK? i’d espected to see at least one of them here afrer 60+ posts.

Great man. Great legacy. People knock him but at least the took a risk and put his life on the line for a cause.

opps, I don’t think