remembering Martin Luther King JR

[Righteousss]

As we all know, or some will soon come to realize, its Martin Luther King JR day!!! Well not only am I happy because my school gave us this day off, but also happy for the accomplishments Martin did for the african american community back in the days of racist-America. Its amazing at how he got the courage to smile in the face of danger. Martin was a devoted minister and a christian since his childhood. In fact, he did not understand racisim as a young boy and would often pray to God for help. Even after his death he had achieved his prime goal, equality of african americans in society and also shaped and turned away the racisim that existed in minds. So if your out of school or in school or just happen to be home or whatever. Think about today and it's importance.

[EricTheFred]

Amen, and amen again.

It's sad to think (although I was seven years old at the time, and can probably be excused for it) that the first time I heard of MLKjr was when the flags were dropped to half-mast at my school, the day he was assassinated.

The only positive I can give out of this experience, was this was in a suburban elementary school in what was at the time a very white Edina, Minnesota.

It's one of my first memories of a significant news event (I had heard of Vietnam for as long as I could remember, but didn't understand it or know what it was, except that my uncle had to go there to fight a war.)

[Raiden no Kishi]

Today, all students and faculty at my college went into the community and performed service projects. I picked up trash.

.rai//

[mitsuki lover]

But you still can't get out of going to the dentist!

On a more serious side,CNN had a special on King a few nights back.
Turns out his final speech was one that he had made plenty of times before as a morale booster so no-one really thought much about it at the time when he made it in Memphis.

[~darkelfgirl~]

Amen.

Sadly, racism still exists today in many parts of America and the world. Some people say it doesn't, because they haven't experienced it firsthand. There's a racist family at our church, that is so openly racist, its unbelievable. It's really hard to believe that people who say they love Jesus, hate His creation.

[USSRGirl]

Martin Luther King was probably one of the greatest Christians we could admire. He just seemed so genuinely driven by God rather than the world in everything he did.

It's sad because remembering holidays like this kinda give me mixed feelings when you think about how much ignorance and racism still exists in the U.S. and other parts of the world. :\ It's the saddest when you hear stuff like that from Christians though. I mean, like Darkelf said, how can you say you love God when you can't even love your brothers and sisters on Earth?

[Taliesin]

Eh, the person I was commenting about got banned.

[USSRGirl]

XD Good one, Tal.

My only comment on the post that just got pulled (spoiler tagged for being off-topic in case a mod wants to take it down for inspiring debate):

[spoiler] Seeing as I've yet to hear this from any sources I'd consider credible and a quick search on the topic brings up a load of what I'd deign to call... shaky, conspiracy theorist Christian sites with nothing better to do with their time then predict the appocalypse and try to slam dead people, I'd have to take it with the same level of credibility (or lack thereof) of the 'MLK was a commie' hoax (which for the record would've been darn fine with me :p ) and the overblown though true floating story that he plagairized his colleges thesis (also cool with me ). But in short, I do not admire every Christian I've come to respect simply because they have a fundamentalist doctrine, nor do I find flaws or struggles in their personal faith or life to be any of my nitpicking business. Within reason, I don't really care enough to bother myself with digging up tabloid-esque stories on everyone who's ever lived. I admire his works, his strength of character, and his philosophy which was largely Biblical based and - as far as I or anyone else this side of heaven knows - admire and relate to his struggles as a Christian at the time in particular.

EDIT: Scratch that. Mysterious mystery has been revealed, Dib. According to three historic secular sources (see link: http://www.worldofbiography.com/9226-Martin%20Luther%20King%20Jr/life.htm) so far outside of the one labeled "MLK EXPOSED OMGNESS!!" King denied the bodily resurrection of Christ as a thirteen-year-old who was experiencing doubts in the faith he was brought up in. Mmmyep. And I wanted to marry Edgar Allan Poe when I was thirteen. No, really, I did.[/spoiler]

'Nuff said.

[Fish and Chips]

General Ulysses S. Grant drank like a fish, smoked his breath away with expensive cigars, and was a notoriously poor judge of character.

He still won the Civil War.

EDIT: Banned, quick-draw style.