Union Solidarity: Dr. Martin L. King-: On Labor, Wealth & Inequality'

Source:Union Solidarity- Dr. Martin L. King's last great speech. 

“Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Labor, Wealth and Justice” 

From Union Solidarity

Economic policy, is the part of Dr. Martin L. King’s message that I disagree with. And where he was lacking, because he sort of took this social democratic view that came out of the New Deal, or Great Society that judged what we were doing to help the middle class and low-income people based on how much we spent on them. The theory being: “That if we spend a lot of money to reduce poverty, that poverty will go away, because we’ll have all of these government programs to take care of people.”

I mean, if you listen to this video, you’ll see clip from one of his speeches where he says: “We now have the resources that we need to wipeout poverty”. You could spend a trillion dollars a year in America, or anywhere else to reduce poverty and right now the United States is not that far from that and you’ll still have poverty in this country, if that money is not being spent to empower people to get themselves out of poverty. Because government no mater what it spends, or any private organization for that matter, can’t get people out of poverty by themselves. The people in poverty have to do that for themselves. What government and the private sector can do is empower people to get themselves out of poverty.

I love both men (you know, platonically) but where I give Malcolm X an advantage over Dr. King is when it came to economics. Minister X’s message was about education and self-reliance when it came to economic policy. Economically, Minister X was closer to Barry Goldwater than Lyndon Johnson, or Franklin Roosevelt. He wanted to empower the African-American community to get themselves the tools that they needed to be economically independent, self-reliant in life, making it on their own.

I give Reverend King the edge when it came to the civil rights movement. Because without the message of non-violence, the civil rights movement would’ve never have gotten as far as it did, not even come close. Because this movement would’ve been seen as a bunch of thugs, criminals, terrorists by the so-called mainstream media. But taking it a next step forward post-civil rights laws of the 1960s, I give the edge to Malcolm X as far as what African-Americans should now do with the freedom they finally have under law. 

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ABC Sports: NBA 1970- NBA Finals Game 7: Los Angeles Lakers @ New York Knicks: Full Game

Source:ABC Sports- New York Knicks point guard Walt Frazier.

"1970 NBA Finals G7 New York Knicks vs. Los Angeles Lakers" 

From Torontos

The Captain inspiring his team to beat the Lakers in Game 7 to win the 1970 NBA Finals. As many people have said, it wasn’t how Willis Reed played in game 7, but the fact that he was out there and that the Lakers had to try to deal with him, that inspired the rest of the Knicks to do what they needed to do to beat a very good and more talented Lakers team. It’s not like Willis Reed just showed up can scored 20 points and grabbed 15 rebounds and shut down Wilt Chamberlain. That’s not what happened here.

NFL Films: NFL 1960- San Francisco 49ers @ Baltimore Colts: Intro

Source:Pigskin Academy- the San Francisco 49ers vs the Colts, from 1960.

Source:The Daily Journal 

“Rare original TV Broadcast footage from the 1st Quarter of the 1960 Baltimore Colts vs. the San Francisco 49ers. This was the season that Niners Coach Red Hickey introduced the Shotgun Formation which was later popularized by the Dallas Cowboys and is now used by virtually every team in Pro Football.”

From Pigskin Academy 

Interesting matchup between a good veteran San Francisco 49er team who were pretty solid in the 1950s and had the wildcard been around back then, probably would’ve made the playoffs several times, against the two-time defending NFL Champion Colts who were going for a three-peat. 

The San Francisco 49ers of this era were good and again would’ve been a consistent playoff team back then if their were wildcards, instead of just the conference champions making to postseason and then playing the NFL Championship against each other. But the 49ers weren’t a championship team. Good on offense, but perhaps not great and didn’t have a great defense either.

The Colts were going for their 3rd-straight NFL Championship in 1960. So this was a matchup between a good football team in the 49ers, against a proven NFL champion in the Colts.

The Daily Beast: ‘Michele Bachmann’s Most Outrageous Comments’

Source:The Daily Beast- former U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann. (Republican, Minnesota) The only public service that Michele Bachmann ever did was not running for reelection. She did Minnesota a big favor there.

Source:FreeState MD

"Never one to shy away from a tendentious (or just blatantly false) statement, the Tea Party Congresswoman has witnessed her fair share of controversy. From virulent anti-gay sentiment to borderline McCarthyism, watch Bachmann's worst."

From The Daily Beast

Some people may think George W. Bush is the Democratic Party’s favorite punching bag. But the fact is President Bush has been out of office for over four years now (thank God) and he’s looking pretty good compared with today’s GOP.

This is a little difficult for me because that’s like coming up with best plays that Larry Bird ever made playing basketball. Or the best passes that Joe Montana ever thrown, or the best home runs that Hank Aron ever hit and so-fourth. Also I don’t live in Representative Bachmann’s House district or state, thank God, otherwise I would’ve moved or been kicked out of there, whatever came first. And I’m not in Congress myself so what I hear about her is from the national media or from blogs. But I can limit it two or three as someone who follows politics closely and has big annoyance when it comes to political hypocrisy and contradiction.

When Representative Bachmann announced for President in the summer of 2011, as I and every other blogger and comedian were celebrating about all the new material that was going to come our way free of charge and at her expense coming from Michele herself, she announced she was in favor of two constitutional amendments. One was to outlaw pornography and the other was to outlaw same- sex marriage both at the federal level. Keep in mind this coming from someone who calls herself a constitutional conservative. Also keep in mind this coming from someone who knows as much about conservatism and the U.S. Constitution as a fish knows about Wall Street.

During Representative Bachmann’s four month presidential campaign she also came out against big government. Well, that makes sense because that’s an issue she knows a lot of about with all of her positions in support of big government. Michele has a habit of bashing things she’s in love with, well, take big government to use as an example. And claiming to love and support things that she says she loves. Take well the U.S. Constitution to use as an example.

What if I were a Republican today, first of all I would ask myself why am I a Republican today and if I could answer that question and I was still a Republican, I would want George W. Bush back leading the party. And prey that he learned something from all of his dumb mistakes as President and didn’t repeat them. Because GWB looks like a God compared with today’s Republican Party and Michele Bachmann represents the intelligence and information gap in the Republican Party. And why they can’t win elections they are supposed to win easily going in.

The Doors Ceara: 'Additional Scenes The Doors (1991) The Movie'

Source:The Doors Ceara- Val Kilmer, as The Lizard King Jim Morrison.

"People listen me: youtube is deleting all video that contains audio copyright. The fault is not mine!"

From The Doors Ceara 

This scene right here is from the studio session from Oliver Stone's The Doors (1991) where the band is together, including The Lizard King Jim Morrison (played by Val Kilmer) and he's drunk and not performing well. The producer and director gets on him about that. They keep cutting parts of the session, because Morrison is so off and he gets frustrated with that and comes out of the booth and they have a big argument. And then things calm down after Morrison sees his girlfriend Pam Courson (played by Meg Ryan) and she gives him a blow job in the booth and they finish their music.

Source:The Daily Journal- from Oliver Stone's The Doors (1991)

If you watch The Doors 1991 DVD, which I recommend there's a documentary on it about about the 1991 Doors movie, but also about the real Lizard King Jim Morrison, they interview Doors piano player Ray Manzarek and he essentially says: "Jim Morrison was more than a wild man in skin-tight leathers." Which of course was true, but his rocker/cowboy wardrobe and attitude was a huge part of The Lizard King and attitude. 

During that 1966/67-69 period Jim Morrison was seen everywhere in his black and sometimes brown skin-tight leather jeans, cowboys boots and concho belt, as well as his black leather suit jacket that he wore with his leather jeans. He obviously performed practically everywhere in that outfit, he did interviews, he partied, he traveled, in his free time he wore those pants and boots. 

That is what Oliver Stone picked up upon when he put together his 1991 movie about Jim Morrison. He has about a hour of footage in a two-hour and twenty-minute film about Jim Morrison (with Val Kilmer playing Morrison) in his patented skin-tight black leather jeans and cowboys boots, as well as concho belt. Performances, interviews, parties, even at weddings and churches. You see The Lizard King in his famous Lizard King uniform. The superhero of rock and roll. 

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Robert F. Kennedy For President: 1968 Campaign Ad

Source:Robert F. Kennedy For President- this is from a 1968 RFK For President campaign ad for Nebraska.

“RFK campaign ad 1968, directed by John Frankenheimer (“The Manchurian Candidate”)”

From RFK Must Die 

The environmental movement in the late 1960s, which was just becoming big to the point today and perhaps even twenty-years ago that national Democrats at least couldn’t win without them, especially if they were running for president. But Democrats they couldn’t win in Congress without the environmental community unless they represented a very rural state, or district that was heavily dependent on oil, gas and coal. States like West Virginia, to use as an example.

America changed a lot politically in the 1960s where the Democratic Party started truly becoming the progressive party and the Republican Party starting to become the conservative party. With both parties still have moderate factions in them, but just not as big as they use to be.

Senator Kennedy, made the environment a big part of his 1968 presidential campaign. But it was more about regulations of energy industries and not so much about his own national energy policy. And had he been elected president in 1968, we probably get an EPA and perhaps an Energy Department as well. Instead of President Richard Nixon creating the EPA and President Jimmy Carter creating the Energy Department.

It was also President Nixon that pushed for the idea of a national energy policy and getting off of foreign oil and gas. President Gerald Ford and President Carter, wanted to do the same thing, but differently at least in President Carter’s case. But making the environment a real issue was still very new when Bobby Kennedy ran for president in 1968. 

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Divinity: Dr. Martin L. King: Last Speech in Memphis (1968)

Source:Divinity- Reverend's Dr. Martin L. King and Ralph Abernathy in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968.

“I Have Been to the Mountaintop Full Speech” 

From Divinity

I don’t believe there are many people perhaps in the history of the world, but certainly in the history of the United States who had better timing than Martin L. King. And I say that for a few reasons, but just take when Reverend King gave this speech and when he died which was the next day in 1968 and then look at, or listen to what Reverend King said in this speech and what was in it and what he had to say. Which I at least believe was vision for what the civil rights movement was all about.

Dr. King laid out in his last speech what it means to be an American no matter your race in a liberal democracy such as the United States. Where we all under the United States Constitution are to be treated equally under law with the same constitutional rights and freedoms as any other American. That we aren’t supposed to be treated better, or worse by law in this country. And that’s just one reason why the way African-Americans were treated in America prior to the civil rights laws of the 1960s was simply unconstitutional. Because African-Americans were treated worse than Caucasian-Americans under law in this country.

What Reverend King was saying in this speech was that he’s seen the mountaintop of where all Americans were being treated equally under law. That this vision is real where no American has to live in poverty without the basic necessities and skills to be able to live well in life. That we aren’t there yet and you might not see him there with you, but this vision is real and we can get there together as a people if we keep moving forward as a people and a country to build this society where no race of people is treated worse under law simply based on their race.

Dr. King said that we can accomplish this Utopia in America and get there together if we keep up the fight and struggle for equal and human rights in this country until we finally reach the mountaintop. And finally accomplish what we’ve struggled for all of these years.

Thats what this speech was about as far as I’m concern at least and what Reverend King was telling his supporters, that even if you don’t see him there with you, he’s already seen the vision of what we are fighting for. And know we can get there if we keep on moving the ball forward until we get there. 

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