MLK celebration all gone wrong

[Spinaroonie]

A Florida town comissioned a plague to be made of African-American golden-throated actor James Earl Jones thanking him for keeping the dream alive.

Today, they recieved the plague which thanks James Earl Ray for keeping the dream alive.

The Georgetown, Texas company that made the plague blames the problem on having "Not many people that speak English"

I'm so sure. Some stupid prankster somewhere

 

[phrodeau]

Speaking of typos,

(It's plaque.)

Please don't edit your post. It's funnier with the plagues.

 

[EthiopianPrince]

This is a funny story. I agree, the odds of it being a completely accident are close to zero (James Earl Ray was King's assassin). But in the end this is no big deal.

 

[Spinaroonie]

No big deal?

"Thank You, James Earl Ray, for keeping the dream alive?" I'd be pretty offended if I was going to a MLK meeting

(And btw, I took a look at plague and plaque and I liked plague better )

 

[SINthysist]

Devil's Advocate...

Yeah, I'd be offended. But, on the other hand, Ray gave him martyr status and lifted him above the politics of personal destruction. So perhaps, TIC, he did help in some way to keep the dream alive.

 

[patient1]

Re: Devil's Advocate...

Yeah, I'd be offended. But, on the other hand, Ray gave him martyr status and lifted him above the politics of personal destruction. So perhaps, TIC, he did help in some way to keep the dream alive.

 

[SINthysist]

It's a valid point of view. If he had kept on, how long before the scandals broke? How long before jealous members of the movement tried to hijack the dream with some power play? In light of the changes in society in the past quarter century, would he even have his own holiday if he were to have lived a long life?

I think it's a valid conjecture for discussion.

 

[Spinaroonie]

I disagree. MLK did what nobody else did at the time and stand up and get some change going in this country.

Also, it wasn't James Earl Ray who killed him supposedly.

 

[SINthysist]

James Earl Ray, or whoever sought to shut him up. At one time, the Jewish leadership decided to shut up one Jesus of Nazarath.

Now would JC had been as big without the Easter thing?

Would history had pulled Dr. King off his pedastle as a thousand voices cried, Me too!, when it was time to honor the leaders of a movement.

 

[tigerjen]

I read about that in the NY Post......terrible! They better
fix that plaque!!!!

 

[patient1]

Last I heard, which is probably 10 years ago, he was the youngest man ever to win the Nobel Prize.

I think his best years were ahead of him.


I think hijacking the dream is more likely without him than with him. I don't think assasination did more for the dream than a living orator would.

I'll agree that there wouldn't be an official holiday for a living person. More likely they'd have commemorated an event in his
struggle rather than he himself. Maybe he'd have preferred it that way.

As for no Easter, no Christianity- well sure. That would have made Christ's predictions false for starters.

As for James Earl Ray conspiracy theories- I'm outta here.

 

[SINthysist]

Nobel Prizes for the soft arts go with the flow. I mean, people like Clinton will campaign for one much like on one of those TV awards.

As far as gaining in stature, no way. That is not the nature od what we do. Attack, attack, attack. And to surise that Dr. K, would be above all of that is being naive.

 

[sigh]

the nobel peace prize is for a "soft art"?

there couldn't possibly be a more difficult art than bringing peace

MLK's greatness was built upon the quality of his soul...like ghandi, he was too bright to hide

now if we were discussing JFK, on the other hand...