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Thank you for your kind

Wattree — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 15:42:19 +0000

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Thank you for your kind words, Anonymous, and I fully agree with your comments regarding the pimping of Martin's dream. But the beautiful thing about Martin's legacy is that it's much more durable than those who seek to exploit it. Martin planted a seed that will continue to sprout all over the world with the Spring of every generation that comes into bloom. So the roots of his legacy has proven to be tenacious, strong, and firmly planted

Eric, Beautiful. Stunningly

Anonymous — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 12:05:46 +0000

In reply to MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR: A MAN WHO MADE A DIFFERNCE

Eric, Beautiful. Stunningly beautiful remembrance of King. Sadly too many of those who were around him before his death, have now built identities as an industry of nearly exploiting his great legacy. Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. was without a doubt a uniquely remarkable man...... There is great sadness in the harsh reality his legacy has also become a vending machine to rewrite history to suit agendas, and not necessarally to celebrate King. It's a wonderful thing to imagine what Dr. King would say or believe today if he were alive. And more than this, to imagine what he would say to those wearing his legacy like a the blood stained shirt Jesse Jackson wore for days. The legacy of Dr. King will always be great. The taint is those speaking today as if they knew his heart. Even when those very people may have in other ways betrayed King's legacy long ago. The business of selling King is big business, and not because his children want compensation. Because King is dead; it's easy to profit from this astonishing legacy: Dr King is not alive today to speak for himself, or to question those using his legacy to pay their own bills. A disgrace, really. And antithetical to everything MLK.

One of my favorite songs from

Peter Schwartz — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 19:49:02 +0000

In reply to Good points Mr Wattree...

One of my favorite songs from back in the day.

Read Off Center by Hacker and

Peter Schwartz — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 19:48:22 +0000

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Read Off Center by Hacker and Pierson.

VERY sobering on the sophisticated ways a small minority of extremists can control and outmaneuver a much greater group of moderates in both parties.

Though it was written in 2005, it remains true today. My sense is that some of what they describe has broken down. Rove and Norquist may not be quite the puppet masters they once were, but the infrastructure is intact, I believe.

The Tea Party, as its senatorial losses in 2012 showed, may be one hair brain too far, but it still wields enormous power in the House where they seem to be lodged in safe seats constructed for them. And if they smarten up just a tidge, they could take the senate in 2014.

So very true.

Peter Schwartz — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 19:39:27 +0000

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So very true.

Saying MLK was a man "who

Peter Schwartz — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 19:36:53 +0000

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Saying MLK was a man "who made a difference" is the understatement of the new century and maybe the last one, too.

Wow! Thank you, OGD.

Wattree — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 21:50:26 +0000

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Wow! Thank you, OGD.

Thank you for that, OGD. I

Wattree — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 21:42:48 +0000

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Thank you for that, OGD.

I remember it well. Isn't it amazing how fast time slips away? Back then we thought time was standing still, but as I look back on it I now see that Martin was little more than a kid himself, and at this point, more time has passed since his death than he managed to live.

It's scary, and what's even scarier is the fact that time seems to be speeding up with every day that passes. It makes one realize that we’re only given seconds here on this Earth. Because of that new realization and fear, I'm working on six books at one time. I feel like I'm working against a deadline. How I would love to regain the feeling that people over thirty are over the hill, and life was standing still. But even as I write this sentence I can feel myself becoming comfortable with the vague aches and pains of my own mortality.

I hope we get another shot at this. If you do, I’m going to use my time more wisely. Maybe I can find a way to leave myself a memo - "Man, get on it, because you wasted half a lifetime last time around."

Good points Mr Wattree...

oldenGoldenDecoy — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 20:20:26 +0000

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Good points Mr Wattree... Your words are a treasure.

And that is why I've learned to start each day in solitary reflection and go forth into the world from there.

Yes... Time is of the essence... As my previous neighbor and friend Lester here in North Hollywood once recorded with his brothers from Mississippi. It rings as true today as the day they wrote it. The Time magazine covers in this video tell some of the stories of the journey you and I have experienced.

Keep on... Keeping on Mr. Wattree . . .

~OGD~

RM, and not to even mention

Wattree — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:47:28 +0000

In reply to In the era of the first Black

RM, and not to even mention that every day more Republicans are waking up to reality:

A Disaffected Republican

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/opinion/disaffected-republicans.html?_r=1