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While the nation may not agree on whether his dream has been realized, the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King lives on and is now forever immortalized with the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial, the first African-American memorial on or near the National Mall, which opened to the public last Monday and was to be dedicated with a weekend of ceremonial events, culminating on Sunday, which marked the 48th anniversary of his “I Have a Dream” speech, but was postponed indefinitely due to Hurricane Irene.
As we celebrate his life and legacy, take a look at Dr. King as he describes “the new Negro” opening with:
I think I could best answer that question by saying first that the New Negro is a person with a new sense of dignity and destiny. With a new self-respect. Along with that is lack of fear, which once characterized the Negro. This willingness to stand up courageously for what he feels is just and what he feels he deserves on the basis of the laws of the land. I think also I would like to mention this growing honesty which characterizes the Negro today. There was a time that the Negro used duplicity, deception too, rather as a survival technique; although he didn’t particularly like conditions — he said he liked them because he felt that the boss wanted to hear that. But now from the housetops, from the kitchens, from the classrooms and from the pulpit, the Negro says in no uncertain terms that he doesn’t like the way he’s being treated. So at long last the Negro is telling the truth. And I think this is also one of the basic characteristics of the new Negro.
Special thanks to PBS for this and other archival footage commemorating Dr. King.
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I TOO AM THE NEW NEGRO DR KING….SPEAK LOUD –PROUD & STAND TALL..Man had courage–wisdom & a dignity that’s lacking in many of our elders today–sad but true..
He would sorely be disappointed in our many of our young blacks of today….
He should be disappointed in himself because he is the main reason that black people are in the condition that they’re in. This round table was very elucidating because it showed the dynamic of the whole “civil rights movement”, which was based off of a premise known as the “Hegelian Dialectic”, which is pressure from above (Supreme Court reforms), and pressure from below (sit-ins, marches, protests, etc.). That is why the “judge” (the wizard) was sitting across from King…..to make sure that King read his lines correctly. The plan (which has worked) was to prop the “negro” up as cannon fodder and a test run for the real movements that they wanted to initialize, which were the feminist and most importantly, h*mosexual movements. Notice that when asked, King had no idea what his organization was going to do once they received “equal rights”. What type of leader hasn’t thought his plan out to it’s fruition other than someone who is not a leader but a pawn? He had no idea what he was going to do because he was getting all his ideas from the Jewish communists that were sponsoring him i.e. Jane Braden, James Dombrowski, Stanley Levinsohn, etc. Anyone can research King’s training at the Communist training school. One of their main tactics was to bomb their own homes to get sympathy from the mainstream populace for their causes. Most of King’s arrests and home bombings were staged. He talked out of turn about the Vietnam War, and they put his behind to death. Just the fact that the white man gave him a statue shows that he was a coon and a sell-out.
Thats what im talking about Judah The man was nothing but a d*mn pawn and a d*mn Boul.e,he said nothing of value,hes the reason why blacks are so dead in spirit and values today.
Judah….lucky for us FREE WILL exists right…
@DOLL
Yes you have the free will to be a “new negro” (meaning a b*sexual, gang member, tatted up degenerate). You, like King, probably love the idea of holding hands with a white person than you love your own self lol.
Another reason why gays/lesbians like to say that gay is the new “black” and attempt to guilt blacks into accepting homosexuality as natural.
Some form of separatism would have been better, but I really don’t think it wouldn’t have lasted in America. Now it seems almost impossible to fix the situation since blacks would rather be dogs in a white man’s house than have a house of their own.
Maybe the monument will get defaced.
Gay…Lesbian…lmbao Where did you get that from my comment of FREE WILL….Im referencing that fact that you’re blaming the actions violence etc in 2011 on Dr King….
When you know better…you do better…if we as a people have and share the same beliefs as you…what’s stopping you/us from having a different mentality in 2011 than King did in his time..if you stand by your statements as facts…if his behavior and actions were all lies…leading them to be slaughtered –sold to the highest bidder—-(you get my point) then you should do whats morally right…You have the freedom to make sound and intelligent decisions…DONT YOU???
Its always easuer to pass the buck..DONT PRACTICE WHAT I PREACH..
Do I believe in gay relationships…No– persoanlly I think its wrong but I dont have the right to pass judgement on who someone chooses to be with….It doesnt render me from being or doing what I am to do in LIFE..I truly try not to stand in judgement of another human being because that alone is a sin….I dont have time nor do I care enough about what goes in someone elses home…DO YOU??
Im just trying to keep my relationship in a good healthy and loving place…
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lol stop your queefing, my comment was directed to Judah.
Dr King was a Fucking idiot.
Dr King was a F*cking idiot.
The most sordid charges about MLK’s sex life, this one included, there’s no doubt about what one biographer calls King’s “compulsive sexual athleticism.” King’s attitude toward women was chauvinist and often exploitative. In his 1989 autobiography, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, King’s close friend and fellow civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy writes that on the night before he died, King gave a rousing speech, had dinner with a woman afterward and remained with her till 1 AM, then came back to his motel to spend the night with a second woman. In the early morning hours a third woman came looking for King and became angry when she found the bed in the room he shared with Abernathy unoccupied. When King reappeared, he argued with woman #3 and wound up knocking her across the bed.
\ God!” and “I’m not a Negro tonight!” The FBI anonymously sent King (or, according to some accounts, King’s wife, Coretta) a tape of compromising material recorded in his hotel rooms. The tape was either accompanied or followed up by a note suggesting that King should commit suicide if he wished to avoid exposure.
An investigation conducted by Boston University, where King got his Ph.D. in theology, determined that he had appropriated roughly a third of his doctoral thesis from a dissertation written three years earlier by another graduate student. Curiously, the same faculty member had been “first reader” of both theses, leading some to wonder whether King’s faculty advisers at BU were incompetent or just guilty white liberals who gave a promising young black leader a pass. King also “borrowed” portions of many other writings and speeches, including the famous “I have a dream” speech he gave at the 1963 civil rights rally in Washington.
@HEZEKIAH
You should get a book by Des Griffin called “The Man Behind The Myth”. Very good book and it goes deeper into his hypocrisy. He was detained on the night he won the Nobel Peace prize in Oslo, Norway for chasing a white prostitute down the hotel hallway while he was stark n@ked. His organization, the SCLC, was known for having interracial orgies of which he was the moderator. He was a pervert and a b*sexual. That man was way off, and no black man should look at him as a matrix for leadership. I understand why most black women like him; because he was a conformist, but black men should not view him as anything other than what he was, which is a pawn, a charlatan, and a degenerate who was sponsored and set up from the very start.
Reading these comments is disheartening. I guess no one has done any good to contribute to society and we all should be content with loving our own black selves, take care of our own, and die…
@DOE
You must know the truth miss (John 8:32, Psalms 145:18, John 14:6, etc.). MLK was a FALSE PROPHET and his type is alluded to in the Bible (Deuteronomy 13:1-5, Jeremiah 23:25-32, Zech 10:2).
Judah why do you follow the white man’s religion?
@RICH
What religion is that genius lol?
@Judah Christianity
@RICH
“Christianity” is not the “white man’s religion”. First off, the Bible is a book of law, prophecy, and history, not “religion”. The Lord has only dealt with one people when you read the Bible (Psalms 147:19,20, Amos 3:1, Matt 15:24, Acts 5:31, etc.), and the scriptures have been given into the hands of the other nations to fulfill prophecy. The so-called white man has no belief system, and if you read the Bible you will see that his conduct is now, and has always been contrary to the Bible. His job is to get all people, particularly black people, to no longer believe in the scriptures so that you will fall along with him.
If this is true then why do the majority of caucasians identify with the christian faith?
@RICH
Do they? The reason why I put “Christianity” in quotation marks is because the “religion” known today as “Christianity” is actually just an updated version of the Egyptian/Babylonian mystery school system. Sunday worship, the cross, the “virgin birth”, Christmas, Easter, Lent, etc. are all pagan customs, festivals, and ideologies. The “Pope” is known as the “pontifex maximus” meaning the “bridge” or the “mediator” to “God”. All that is is an updated version of the high priest of the Roman religion, that being the priest of Janus. That is why the “pope” has that headpiece, which is the headpiece of the Philistine fish god “Dagon”, and he uses the bent staff with the pine cone for Tammuz/Osiris. I mean damn, the term “Vatican” means “house of serpents”. If you notice, Vatican City has an obelisk in it, which is the symbol of the peni$ of Osiris (as does Washington D.C. and inner London). It doesn’t get much clearer than that. As an aside, MLK used to meet with Vatican officials to get his orders.
THIS is historical and cultural GOLD. As a community, and more broadly as a society, we need to be having more discourse on such matters as they apply to life today as well as how they applied in years past in reverence of how far we’ve come yet how far we still need to go. Thanks so much for posting this invaluable footage CL!!
@Judah,you are too late as well Devil, I will always love Dr. King and his writing and and honor his the best man American ever…. just go and hide with your jealous self…you are not going to change the minds of those that love him… FOOL
@JAZZCO
I’m not attempting to change anyone’s mind lol. This is why I stated that “black MEN should not look to this man as a matrix for leadership”, and subsequently stated FACTS. Most black women and weak-minded house negroes will believe whatever is put on television and will eat whatever food their master gives them. At the end of the day, that watermelon-head negro is dead. His message is being maintained and pushed by the white establishment, and there is a reason for that.
OUR FATHER LUTHER KING WAS PACIFIST BUT OUR FATHER MALCOM X OR MALCOM AFRICAN HIM WAS ACTIVIST