I Have A Dream...
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Civil Rights in Alabama 1963: Illustrates what Dr. King and others were fighting against. NPR audio of Governor George C. Wallace's stand at the University of Alabama to stop desegregation on June 11, 1963. Also has a snippet of student Vivian Malone Jones who was being blocked from attending college that day. http://www.npr.org/2003/06/11/1294680/wallace-in-the-schoolhouse-door Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. - Gov. George C. Wallace 1963 inaugural speech for Governor of Alabama
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maybe we can change weaponry to settle disputes for other means such as sporting events or scientific ventures or farming accomplisments instead . It would have a much better result in the long run. love doris
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Kittay I'm white but know of what you speak. I don't know what the authorities are going to do to me. They could really let me have it if they want, twist things around...you see I was charged with "DUI" last December, first time something like that ever happened to me, and I'm innocent but still terrified. So scared. It was a perfect storm, that night, of things screwing up--I was out very late at night in a city with a f-----d up layout I wasn't familiar with, hadn't been there in years, and got turned around or something and did something wrong, swerved in the wrong lane or something for a few seconds, looking for a street sign, I was lost. And got pulled by a cop. She claimed I'd done this, that and the other and "nearly hit her car" and I didn't know what the hell she was talking about. Then I failed some tests cause it was freezing cold and I was shivering with the cold and with anger and fear, I'm not very coordinated or athletic anyway. But I was not impaired. She saw some medicine in my handbag when I was looking for my driver's license. One was a tranquillizer or sedative I'd taken at my mother's funeral three weeks previously so I could go to her funeral. That med was still in my purse. But I hadn't taken it since the funeral. Another was some kind of mild prescription pain medicine which I also had not taken in a long time. She claimed my pupils were "dilated." If so it was cause I'd drank a lot of black coffee and also taken some over the counter wake up pills like Vivarin, for the long drive back. I'd gone there to see a movie that wasn't playing anywhere else. That I really wanted to see, "Silver Linings Playbook." I thought it might distract me from grieving for my mother. That gung ho stormtrooper cop hauled me to a hospital for a blood test and then threw me in the pokey for the night. She claimed I was "mean" to her but I was frustrated cause she wouldn't believe I hadn't taken any drugs. And thought I was "impaired" when I was just lost driving around. I kept going back and forth there to court cause the blood test (which should prove my innocence) hasn't come back yet. This is still hanging over me. I wonder if they'll still think I was "impaired" cause there was so much caffeine in my system and legally prescribed meds to lower blood sugar, but those are non-narcotic.
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The dream has always been alive and actualized in reality for the majority of us. It is the much smaller percentage of people in all and any groups whose bias and actions create the problems for the rest of us.
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SurSteven:
The dream has always been alive and actualized in reality for the majority of us. It is the much smaller percentage of people in all and any groups whose bias and actions create the problems for the rest of us.
Yes the dream has been actualized for most and that is a testament that The Dream and others dreaming actually works. There is only a small percentage that still have biased views I agree. But when you get just a small number of those nasty people after you it seems like the whole world is out to destroy you. And you ask for help from civil rights attorneys and they are in bed with the ones who are after you. I have even had my civil rights denied me by one of the country's most well known civil right's attorneys. It is amazing what people will do for money and favors when they are corrupt. It is sad as well. I am just hoping over time these traits of nasty behavior will be bred out of the population and we can all live in Harmony and Peace. > Suzy> that is awful what has happened. I hope it all works out. It seems things always happen when some tragedy in one's life happens. I hate that for you. I am gonna PM you later.
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Andy_Shofar:
al Sabah:
Andy_Shofar:
Some great things can be said without a lot of words ... only 16 minutes for Dr. King. Thanks for posting his message, al Sabah (I'm listening as I type)!
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is only three paragraphs.
Unfortunately, his address was not recorded live
It is probably somewhere in Youtube anyway.
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hey_kittay:
One does not have to be black or any particular race to be denied their civil or constitutional rights as a human being.
Very true. I would add gender and sexuality as well.
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al Sabah:
butterpie:
Why can't we all just get along.
That was a different King.
hes right you know
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al Sabah:
hey_kittay:
One does not have to be black or any particular race to be denied their civil or constitutional rights as a human being.
Very true. I would add gender and sexuality as well.
It seems like the more one objectively educates one's self...the less biased one is likely to be.
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you can also experience discrimination because of age, religious prefereance and disablility. love doris