Early MLK Day - Chemistry, Cause & Politics

[earthboundmisfit]

Food for thought & reflection from my dear friend HH's Museum of the Bourgeois blog:

"In my heart, and in reality, sorrow beyond belief about this Obama/Clinton MLK/LBJ thing.

It wasn’t just MLK, and he knew that, and honoured his comrades, that moved the Cause forward.

The Chemistry needed The Cause and The Politics.

Then, there was a bright, shining moment, with the suffering and sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of Civil Rights activists, and the intervention of a few white politicians like LBJ, who sacrificed almost nothing when The Movement and The Politics came together, and, “without each which not”, meaning, they were both necessary elements, and a New World, however imperfect, was born.

The Civil Rights Act. The Voting Rights Act.

Let’s go back to the mountaintop, look over, and cross over.

Together."

link: Museum of the Bourgeois