Quote:

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”--Martin Luther King

Thursday, April 4, 2013

James Reston on King, 1963


To recall and imagine that good old America was merely mulling the "Negro problem" over a century after Lincoln is mind-boggling.

Washington will be "impressed," Reston opined after the "I Have a Dream" speech.

The point after all was to impress the U.S. Congress, a sullen body of hacks (white) and posers (white) determined to protect not the rights of the citizenry, but their own.

Some things never change.  Well, perhaps they have...marginally.

America, I love thee...sweet land of liberty.


TS

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