Moyers: Imagine If America Had Adopted Martin Luther King's Economic Dream{interview}
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/moyers-imagine-if-america-had-adopted-martin-luther-kings-economic-dream
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BILL MOYERS: And the sanitation workers carried those signs, remember? "I am a man."
TAYLOR BRANCH: "I am a man." And to them, that was about Echol Cole and Robert Walker, their two friends who had been literally crushed with the garbage and nobody noticed. And King is saying, "You're going to go to hell as a nation if you don't notice the humanity of Echol Cole and Robert Walker.
JAMES CONE: And that's why justice is so central for King and why poverty became the focus of his ministry after that civil rights and voting rights. Because the civil rights and voting rights is not going to get rid of poverty. And, so, King saw that as central.
BILL MOYERS: Let’s listen again to Dr. King, from the speech he made to those striking sanitation workers in Memphis just weeks before he was shot to death. What he said about poverty still rings true.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR: Do you know that most of the poor people in our country are working every day? They are making wages so low that they cannot begin to function in the mainstream of the economic life of our nation. These are facts which must be seen. And it is criminal to have people working on a full-time basis and a full-time job getting part-time income.
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it might have happened
those Damn Protest votes stopped the economic progress that was happening right in its tracks.
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in retrospect, 100% of all democratic people should have been on their knees begging LBJ
to stay in the race and run.
Hindsight makes it all so clear.
say what you will, LBJ would have beaten Nixon and the dream would have continued unabated.
(then the same in 1980...way too many ditched Jimmy either because of the Teddy/Jimmy fracture, or because they loved Ronnie's crooked smile and sunny disposition).
FOOLS.
(then in 2000 re-re-dux)
FOOLS
Hindsight is foresight.
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Luckily in 2016, they don't have any power left to stop the continuation needed to make Dr. King's dream and LBJs dream and FDRs dream and Barack Obama's dream into a reality as it takes many consecutive terms to make it happen.
It takes a village of democratic presidents all in a row to make the dream into a reality.
