Bottom line from where I sit here in my little corner of Iowa? That the King family needed more publicity about the statue and the name. Just a power grab okay? But then, why a memorial to a man most people could care less about and who may not be the so-called good guy? Until his records are fully opened up and de-classified he should NEVER have gotten a holiday named after him, streets, buildings, etc. Just in my humble opinion.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has ordered an inscription carved into the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington be changed, after complaints that the quote does not accurately reflect the civil rights leader’s words.
The inscription, “I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness,” paraphrases a sermon King delivered in 1968, two months before he was assassinated:
“If you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter.”
Poet Maya Angelou was one of the leading critics of the inscription when the memorial was dedicated last year. As The Blaze previously reported, Angelou slammed the quote, saying it makes King look like “an arrogant twit” outside its proper context.
According to the Washington Post, Salazar has given the National Park Service 30 days to come up with a more accurate alternative.
“This is important because Dr. King and his presence on the Mall is a forever presence for the United States of America, and we have to make sure that we get it right,” Salazar told the Post.
Ed Jackson Jr., the executive architect of the $120 million project, previously said King’s words were shortened due to space constraints.
He said in an emailed statement to the Associated Press Friday that the cost to make changes to the inscription will be assessed but none of the existing stone work will be removed.
“A few very carefully selected words will be added to the existing phrase; that will further amplify his statement about his role in America during the mid-20th century as a leader, a social advocate, a messenger, a voice of the people … for freedom, justice, hope and peace,” Jackson said.
Harry Johnson, president of the King Memorial Foundation, told the AP it wasn’t yet clear what the alternatives might be. The group would look at all the ways a change could be made, he said.
The ongoing inscription dust-up is just one of the controversies that’s surrounded the King memorial. Others have complained that its sculptor Lei Yixin is Chinese, not American, and have charged that King’s stern-looking facial expression does not portray his peaceful nature.
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Hypocrisy’s Name is WordPress: Check Out Jane Wells’ Screed Against SOPA’s Censorship While Recalling WordPress’ Censorship Of Bare Naked Islam FOUR DAYS EARLIER
Interesting and shows you that liberals are nothing but freaking hypocrites!
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Libyan Militias Battle South of Tripoli
U.S., Israel postpone joint war games
Russell Simmons and Dylan Ratigan: War on Drugs Is a Racist Conspiracy Why do black people and liberals see every thing as racist? They should get over it!
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Professional do-gooder Kerry Kennedy — Gov. Cuomo’s ex-wife and the daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy — has called the oil-drilled rain forests of Ecuador “the biggest corporate environmental disaster on the face of the Earth, in the history of the world.”
The human-rights activist penned opinion pieces and lobbied officials to voice her outrage at the damage oil companies have caused to the town of Lago Agrio, where 1,700 square miles of rain forest have been destroyed and people sickened.
What Kennedy has never mentioned during her campaign is that she is being paid handsomely for her seemingly selfless advocacy.
Kennedy, 52, was secretly hired as a “public-relations consultant” by the lawyer representing the Ecuadoreans in an $18 billion lawsuit against Chevron, according to court documents.
Cashing in on her respected family name and legacy, Kennedy raked in tens of thousands of dollars and was given a 0.25 percent stake — worth as much as $40 million — if the $18 billion judgment handed down by an Ecuadorean judge is ultimately upheld. (Chevron has not yet paid pending its countersuit in Manhattan federal court.)
Kennedy was paid a flat $50,000 by lead attorney Steven Donziger on Feb. 22, 2010, bank statements made public in the case show.
She was set to pull down an additional $10,000 per month, according to a September 2010 draft budget by the law firm. And she was to get another $40,000 in expenses in June 2010, according to an invoice from Donziger.
But being a hired shill didn’t stop Kennedy from presenting herself as a crusader with only a personal interest and familial duty to Ecuador’s indigenous masses.
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Take Your “Outrage” and SHOVE IT! Victory Tinkle Edition Interesting take (have to agree with him) on the government and the left on their condemnation of a few dead terrorists getting pissed on.
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Our tax dollars hard at work.
(INN) — The principal Palestinian Authority’s religious leader, the Mufti Muhammad Hussein, speaking last week, presented the killing of Jews by Muslims as a religious Islamic goal.
Hussein made the comments at an event celebrating the 47th anniversary of the founding of the Fatah movement, which is headed by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. He cited the Hadith (Islamic tradition attributed to Muhammad) saying that “the Hour [of Resurrection] will not come until you fight the Jews. The Jew will hide behind stones or trees. Then the stones or trees will call: ‘Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.’”
The event was broadcast on PA TV, translated by the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) research institute and presented on its website.
The moderator who introduced the Mufti at the Fatah event reiterated another Islamic belief: that the Jews are the descendants of apes and pigs.
“Our war with the descendants of the apes and pigs (i.e., Jews) is a war of religion and faith,” the moderator said.
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“States rights” is the left’s new code word for racism.
And of course, this so called reverend (I doubt if God in Heaven would accept him as such) plays, like more blacks and liberals, the race card for no reaon!
(Politico) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson says he wants to hear the candidates at the Republican presidential debate tonight — Martin Luther King Jr. Day — discuss racial issues, which the civil rights activist says the GOP hopefuls have avoided throughout the campaign.
“I want to hear from them — do they support Dr. King and the New South movement? Do they appreciate Dr. King’s legacy?” Jackson told POLITICO. “These candidates talk about free enterprise, but do they understand that there would be no Boeing plant in South Carolina if blacks and whites couldn’t work together? That you couldn’t have CNN with a segregated Atlanta, or a Disney World in a segregated Florida?”
“I’ve not seen one of them with African-Americans in their ads or going to an African-American church,” Jackson said of the 2012 hopefuls. “It is an irony that they are having a debate on Martin Luther King Day, when all of them are running on state’s rights.”
According to Jackson, by embracing states’ rights, all of the GOP candidates are running campaigns whose platforms run counter to the very reasons Dr. King is hailed a national hero. “The Tenth Amendment was a rationale for southern segregation,” he said. “All of [the candidates] are running on states’ rights, when precisely the cause to defeat states’ rights chose the Thirteenth Amendment.”
