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2011-10-17 Home Front: Politix
Obama Hails 'Moral Imagination' of King at Dedication
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Posted by Fred 2011-10-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 And then compared himself to MLK while occupying wall street.
Posted by newc 2011-10-17 01:44||   2011-10-17 01:44|| Front Page Top

#2 "Instead, he said let's take those victories and broaden our mission to achieve not just civil and political equality but also economic justice."

I kind of remember MLK talking more about civil and political equality, not so much with the "economic justice." Or am I mistaken?
Posted by Secret Master 2011-10-17 02:22||   2011-10-17 02:22|| Front Page Top

#3 I would like to see a certain someone flayed and salted...alive.
Posted by Secret Asian Man 2011-10-17 02:32||   2011-10-17 02:32|| Front Page Top

#4 I think they left out the two "t"s in better schools.

"Economic justice can best be won by free men, through free enterprise.*"

But O's version of economic justice is equality of rconomic outcome.

*part of the US Jaycees Creed
Posted by Bobby 2011-10-17 06:16||   2011-10-17 06:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Actually MLK did talk a bit about economic equality. It sounded too communist so he dropped it. I'll find the scoop on the poop about it.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2011-10-17 07:28||   2011-10-17 07:28|| Front Page Top

#6 “I am now convinced
that the
simplest approach
will prove the most
effective — the
solution to poverty
is to abolish it
directly by a now
widely discussed
measure: the
guaranteed income.”
“The dispossessed of this country —
the poor, the white and Negro — live
in a cruelly unjust society. they must
organize a revolution against that
injustice, not against the lives of the
persons who are their fellow citizens,
but against the structures through
which society is refusing to take
means which have been called for,
and which are at hand, to lift the load
of poverty.”
“[He] is deprived of normal education
and normal social and economic
opportunities. When he seeks opportunities,
he is told, in effect, to lift
himself up by his own bootstraps,
advice which does not take into
account the fact that he is barefoot.”
Posted by Deacon Blues 2011-10-17 07:37||   2011-10-17 07:37|| Front Page Top

#7 Obama and King.
Posted by Anonymoose 2011-10-17 10:21||   2011-10-17 10:21|| Front Page Top

#8 A statue designed by a communist master agit-prop, carved in a foreign country notorious for human rights abuses, dedicated by the son of an exchange student descendant from the peoples who captured people for slavery.

Sure the man deserves to be recognized, but this honers the American Black Experience how?

(Artistically, the statue, well, do I get into it because somebody liked it enough to approve it...lazy. See, in my very humble opinion, it worked for Michaelangelo because he died an old man sculpting leaving his slaves project incomplete. This is prototypical uninspiring communist agit-prop, turning MLK jr into some sort of maoist zod, not only insulting to a good looking man but turning him unrecognizable without the label and ambiance.)
Posted by swksvolFF 2011-10-17 10:43||   2011-10-17 10:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Bambi wouldn't recognize either moral or imagination if they walked up and bit him in the ass. And if they did, they'd both get a nasty disease. >:-(
Posted by Barbara 2011-10-17 11:30||   2011-10-17 11:30|| Front Page Top

#10 If you replace his use of the word "imagination" with "adaptive".... ?

I thought the statue, facial expression, etc, looked amazing like a member of Qin's terra-cotta army. But that's just me.
Posted by Sofa-Soldier 2011-10-17 11:37||   2011-10-17 11:37|| Front Page Top

#11 Not just you.
Posted by lotp 2011-10-17 12:05||   2011-10-17 12:05|| Front Page Top

#12 For sure.

While back, a China Cool guy was stating that the Italians were only poor copycats, and did not have the noodle until Polo brought it back. To which I replied, maybe but the types of noodles the Italians use could fill a book while the Chinese eat the same noodle from a thousend years ago. I may not be entirely accurate but guy sure got quiet.
Posted by swksvolFF 2011-10-17 12:11||   2011-10-17 12:11|| Front Page Top

#13 Awwwwww, swksvolFF, did you hurt his widdle feewings?

Good!
Posted by Barbara 2011-10-17 14:50||   2011-10-17 14:50|| Front Page Top

#14 I'm a little skeptical of the statue myself. So I endeavored to compare a picture of the statue to a picture of the man. I think the man's face was a little more round, the eyebrows arched, the eyes more compassionate. Dunno how you put compassion into they eyes of a statue. Maybe you could start by not making them so narrow. Somehow the statue makes him look lean and mean like some kind of a military man, not a preacher.



Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-10-17 14:58||   2011-10-17 14:58|| Front Page Top

#15 I'm a little skeptical of Obama too. But that's another story.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-10-17 15:02||   2011-10-17 15:02|| Front Page Top

#16 Don't forget MLK was before Black leaders (Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton) turned to race baiting tactics. MLK was around when there was a serious, and noticable problem in race relations that makes today's troubles insignificant in comparison.

Oh, and MLK was around when the black middle class and the number of black owned businesses were growing and black families still had two parents.
Posted by rjschwarz 2011-10-17 15:27||   2011-10-17 15:27|| Front Page Top

#17 So, when *did* the Democrats freeze MLK in carbonite, anyway?
Posted by Anonymoose 2011-10-17 18:38||   2011-10-17 18:38|| Front Page Top

#18 Somehow the statue makes him look lean and mean like some kind of a military man, not a preacher.

I was thinking V.I. Lenin (in the 'Stans).
Posted by Pappy 2011-10-17 18:49||   2011-10-17 18:49|| Front Page Top

#19 The Mao Luther King statue.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-10-17 18:54||   2011-10-17 18:54|| Front Page Top

#20 The artist not only failed in making the statue look much like King, but also seems to have carved out an homage to a tin horn dictator.
Posted by Pollyandrew 2011-10-17 19:37||   2011-10-17 19:37|| Front Page Top

#21 looks like a chunky Eddie Murphy
Posted by Frank G 2011-10-17 19:42||   2011-10-17 19:42|| Front Page Top

#22 Mm, I'm seeing a stocky George Jefferson, about to shout for "WeezAY!"
Posted by RandomJD 2011-10-17 20:02||   2011-10-17 20:02|| Front Page Top

#23 LOL Frank G -
The first thing I thought when I saw the statue is, "Back in the eighties, this is how I would have imagined Eddie Murphy looking in the year 2011."
Posted by ryuge 2011-10-17 22:04||   2011-10-17 22:04|| Front Page Top

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