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cmunic8r99

2012-01-16 10:46:27 AM

FTFA: "They don't do it enough!" said 64-year-old Elisabeth Carr, who cried through most of the play, feeling some of the pain she felt when the civil rights leader died. "The younger generation, they don't know anymore. ... They don't understand what they went through."

I would like to think that this was Dr. King's ultimate goal - to make it so that no generation of any race understands what he and his compatriots had to go through to secure the rights they should have never been denied.

chimp_ninja

2012-01-16 10:54:41 AM

cmunic8r99: I would like to think that this was Dr. King's ultimate goal - to make it so that no generation of any race understands what he and his compatriots had to go through to secure the rights they should have never been denied.

At the same time, it's refreshing that the play isn't trying to canonize him. I liked this quote from the article, which gets into why 'sanitizing' historical figures can actually be harmful:

"It's important for people our age to see that he wasn't this saint-like figure," she said. "It's making you see that just because you're not perfect, it doesn't mean you can't do good."

cmunic8r99

2012-01-16 11:16:52 AM

chimp_ninja: cmunic8r99: I would like to think that this was Dr. King's ultimate goal - to make it so that no generation of any race understands what he and his compatriots had to go through to secure the rights they should have never been denied.

At the same time, it's refreshing that the play isn't trying to canonize him. I liked this quote from the article, which gets into why 'sanitizing' historical figures can actually be harmful:

"It's important for people our age to see that he wasn't this saint-like figure," she said. "It's making you see that just because you're not perfect, it doesn't mean you can't do good."

Indeed.

chimp_ninja

2012-01-16 11:24:07 AM

That said, if the take-home message from the play is "He was regular.", I hope the nutritional advice was not presented in too graphic a fashion.

dahmers love zombie

2012-01-16 11:49:01 AM

chimp_ninja: That said, if the take-home message from the play is "He was regular.", I hope the nutritional advice was not presented in too graphic a fashion.

King possessed a moral fiber largely missing in today's leaders.

MaudlinMutantMollusk

2012-01-16 11:50:41 AM

chimp_ninja: That said, if the take-home message from the play is "He was regular.", I hope the nutritional advice was not presented in too graphic a fashion.

Apparently he got plenty of fiber

violentsalvation

2012-01-16 11:55:46 AM

The MLK Stone of Hope is just uglier than hell.

chimp_ninja

2012-01-16 12:32:57 PM

violentsalvation: The MLK Stone of Hope is just uglier than hell.

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30-foot MLK frowns on your shenanigans.

EvilEgg

2012-01-16 12:44:44 PM

chimp_ninja: violentsalvation: The MLK Stone of Hope is just uglier than hell.

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30-foot MLK frowns on your shenanigans.

He can't be happy about being frozen in carbonite.

Mugato

2012-01-16 12:48:54 PM

Someone let him out!

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Amos Quito

2012-01-16 01:47:04 PM

MLK of Magnesia

Counter_Intelligent

2012-01-16 02:14:11 PM

chimp_ninja: 30-foot MLK frowns on your shenanigans.

That statue would make an awesome Thwomp.

Theeng

2012-01-16 02:14:35 PM

MLK had a dream, that one day his name would be used as a warning to stay away from any roads bearing it.

/wait that's not what his dream was.

TheMysticS

2012-01-16 02:15:19 PM

chimp_ninja: violentsalvation: The MLK Stone of Hope is just uglier than hell.

30-foot MLK frowns on your shenanigans.

Reminds me of the bust of Colonel Potter.

thelordofcheese

2012-01-16 02:19:10 PM

Well fark.

Felgraf

2012-01-16 02:19:15 PM

He was an ordinary man who did extraordinary things.

I do think it's good that some folks are emphasizing his 'regularness': The diefication of people like Dr. King, I think, can be disheartening to those that also want to change the world. They think, "I am not perfect or amazing like they were, what hope do I have?"

But they weren't perfect: They were just people, with all the flaws and problems that can contain, but still strove to make the world a better place. His work, and the works of others, really is a testament to the power of love and hope, I think.

Jake Havechek

2012-01-16 02:19:16 PM

Hi. I'm Michael Scott. I'm in charge of Dunder Mifflin Paper Products here in Scranton, Pennsylvania but I'm also the founder of Diversity Tomorrow, because today is almost over. Abraham Lincoln once said that, "If you're a racist, I will attack you with the North." And those are the principles that I carry with me in the workplace.

that was my nickname in highschool

2012-01-16 02:21:11 PM

Samuel L. Jackson? Really???

rockradio1

2012-01-16 02:21:36 PM

"Say MOUNTAINTOP ONE MORE TIME M.................

Abe Vigoda's Ghost

2012-01-16 02:22:16 PM

"He was regular"

MoronLessOff

2012-01-16 02:22:27 PM

Jake Havechek: Hi. I'm Michael Scott. I'm in charge of Dunder Mifflin Paper Products here in Scranton, Pennsylvania but I'm also the founder of Diversity Tomorrow, because today is almost over. Abraham Lincoln once said that, "If you're a racist, I will attack you with the North." And those are the principles that I carry with me in the workplace.

You may look around, and see two groups here. White collar, blue collar. But I don't see it that way. You know why not? Because I am collar-blind.

ha-ha-guy

2012-01-16 02:23:20 PM

chimp_ninja: violentsalvation: The MLK Stone of Hope is just uglier than hell.

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30-foot MLK frowns on your shenanigans.

Let's hire the company that the Taliban used to get rid of Buddha and try this hole memorial thing again.

/that is ugly

HotWingConspiracy

2012-01-16 02:23:59 PM

So you're telling me he was human?

This discounts his entire body of work!

Nurglitch

2012-01-16 02:24:09 PM

I'm glad someone else noted that Samuel Jackson was portraying the swearing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Coelacanth

2012-01-16 02:25:04 PM

violentsalvation: The MLK Stone of Hope is just uglier than hell.

I have to agree. Really, is this the best they can do? Art least plant something around it.

Teen Wolf Blitzer

2012-01-16 02:25:31 PM

Wait, so there are morons out who thought MLK was some viceless saint?

ox45tallboy

2012-01-16 02:25:35 PM

Samuel L. Jackson as MLK?

"I have a motherfarkin' dream! That one day, these motherfarkin' kids will get off my lawn together instead of separate!"

"That's it! I have had it with these motherfarkin Jim Crow Laws in my motherfarkin country!"

"Say 'separate but equal' again! I dare you! I double dare you! Say 'separate but equal' one more goddamn time!"

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proteon

2012-01-16 02:25:58 PM

He used to tank in pvp gear.

ha-ha-guy

2012-01-16 02:26:03 PM

Coelacanth: violentsalvation: The MLK Stone of Hope is just uglier than hell.

I have to agree. Really, is this the best they can do? Art least plant something around it.

You know what, I'm going to say it. Why did we use a white rock for this guy of all people...

LeroyBourne

2012-01-16 02:26:41 PM

Yeah, I'd have a pretty fowl mouth too if motherfarkers kept throwing bricks through my windows and kept setting crosses on fire on my lawn.

luktti

2012-01-16 02:26:49 PM

But was his wife premium?

Jake Havechek

2012-01-16 02:26:49 PM

Michael Scott:Yeah, I marched on Washington back in the day. I went to the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, U.S. Mint, congressman talked to our class. It was pretty cool.

TheShavingofOccam123

2012-01-16 02:26:53 PM

Well, he didn't live the life of the ordinary black Southern male, which was bad enough. He got to live a life that told him every day how he was going to die. And sure enough he died just like he knew he would. I would have cursed, drank and farked anything that moved if every day I woke up and figured, well, today is the day I get shot in front of my wife and kids.

imontheinternet

2012-01-16 02:27:20 PM

Part of the reason we don't have heroes anymore is the pervasiveness of the celebrity, tabloid culture. People focus on the gossip and ugly parts of a person's life, often to the exclusion of more positive sides.

MLK was a foul-mouthed philanderer, but he was also a civil rights hero, who put his life on the line to do the right thing. History will decide which part of his life was more important.

KillerFuzz

2012-01-16 02:28:05 PM

Aisle seat.

bump

2012-01-16 02:28:58 PM

Little known fact:

On that early morning, MLK kept others waiting till he finished smoking a cigarette (he didn't want young people seeing him smoke.) Then when he came out, Jessie Jackson told him he had something on his shirt and to go back in and change... during this exchange, James Earl Ray had a relatively stationary target.

Thanks Jessie...

ProfessorOhki

2012-01-16 02:30:03 PM

Coelacanth: violentsalvation: The MLK Stone of Hope is just uglier than hell.

I have to agree. Really, is this the best they can do? Art least plant something around it.

Well, it's not the worst statue to honor a civil rights activist. I think that honor still goes to this one. Link (new window) goes to some random blog.

ox45tallboy

2012-01-16 02:31:13 PM

violentsalvation: The MLK Stone of Hope is just uglier than hell.

I know, that thing looks like the artist just didn't finish.

The King Memorial in Atlanta, however...

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THAT is what a memorial to someone who changed his country for the better should look like.

hbk72777

2012-01-16 02:31:26 PM

"He did things that people do behind closed doors. He was regular"

Like spanking the monkey

/not talking about his wife

Parthenogenetic

2012-01-16 02:32:01 PM

HotWingConspiracy: So you're telling me he was human?

This discounts his entire body of work!

Hear, hear!

Unlike, say, a REAL American Hero™

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bump

2012-01-16 02:32:39 PM

Why don't they have Sam Jackson with hair and a mustache? They took great care to otherwise emulate MLK's image - but bypassed the hair???

abfalter

2012-01-16 02:33:02 PM

chimp_ninja: violentsalvation: The MLK Stone of Hope is just uglier than hell.

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30-foot MLK frowns on your shenanigans.

He was encased in carbonite?!?!

ox45tallboy

2012-01-16 02:35:33 PM

ProfessorOhki: Coelacanth: violentsalvation: The MLK Stone of Hope is just uglier than hell.

I have to agree. Really, is this the best they can do? Art least plant something around it.

Well, it's not the worst statue to honor a civil rights activist. I think that honor still goes to this one. Link (new window) goes to some random blog.

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It's POO!

I think Cesar Chaves and that Quezycoattail guy should both be pissed.

wambu

2012-01-16 02:37:13 PM

The King.

ox45tallboy

2012-01-16 02:38:27 PM

bump: Why don't they have Sam Jackson with hair and a mustache? They took great care to otherwise emulate MLK's image - but bypassed the hair???

Here he is in the makeup, don't know why Ebony chose to do the shoot that way.

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Coelacanth

2012-01-16 02:38:53 PM

ha-ha-guy: You know what, I'm going to say it. Why did we use a white rock for this guy of all people...

I would've used a hunk of granite the size of the Astrodome. That white rock they're using looks like plaster of Paris.

Parthenogenetic: HotWingConspiracy: So you're telling me he was human?

This discounts his entire body of work!

Hear, hear!

Unlike, say, a REAL American Hero™

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He's got monuments all over the place. Every homeless person, every doomed soul inside a hospice dying of AIDS, every kid working a McJob because he couldn't go to college, those are all his monuments.

LarryDan43

2012-01-16 02:39:04 PM

Martin? How come I always find my body lotion next to your computer when I get home from shopping?

macross87

2012-01-16 02:39:33 PM

KillerFuzz: Aisle seat.

Good times...

JRoo

2012-01-16 02:44:24 PM

Fox News story on a revered black leader; "A Flawed Man?"

Fox News story on a coked up white leader that started a war? "He Thought Of The Children On 9/11".

Link (new window)

violentsalvation

2012-01-16 02:49:59 PM

JRoo: Fox News story on a revered black leader; "A Flawed Man?"

Fox News story on a coked up white leader that started a war? "He Thought Of The Children On 9/11".

Link (new window)

You know, a local FOX affiliate is not FOX News.

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