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'No matter where it leads, I am going to tell the truth'
Author: Raine    Date: 01/15/2018 14:14:07

Good Morning, Friends. The source of the following is at the video link.

Rare excerpts from "The Frank McGee Sunday Report: Martin Luther King Profile," NBC News, May 7, 1967. The symbol behind Dr. King was used by the Chicago Freedom Movement, also known as the Chicago Open Housing Movement, which Dr. King helped lead from 1965-67. Under it was the slogan, coined by movement spokesperson Don Rose, "We're On the Move To End Slums."

In the interview, Dr. King talks with NBC correspondent Tom Petit about why he chose to "take a vigorous stand" against the U. S. government's undeclared war in Vietnam, for which he had received widespread criticism from the news media, civil-rights groups, religious and labor leaders and President Lyndon B. Johnson's administration.

"I cannot overlook the fact that I am a Negro," Dr. King tells Petit, "and that this war is doing a great deal to destroy the lives of thousands and thousands of my brothers and sisters. We are dying physically in disproportionate numbers in Vietnam. ... The other thing is that we are dying spiritually and psychologically in disproportionate numbers at home in the ghettos, and I think the war itself accounts for our spiritual and psychological death here at home."

This is how the struggles for civil rights at home and for peace abroad are "tied together."

Dr. King also answers the charge that the civil-rights movement is "dead" by explaining that it has entered a "new phase ... where we are seeking GENUINE equality, where we are dealing with hard economic and social issues" beyond integrating lunch counters and buses.

In an excerpt from a speech at Cleveland, Ohio, on April 28, 1967, Dr. King answers the critics of his peace stand by branding the Vietnam conflict as "an evil war." "And no matter where it leads," he declares, "no matter what abuses it may bring, I'm gonna tell the truth."

A year later, on March 10, 1968, "The Frank McGee Sunday Report," which had provided Dr. King with a fair platform to explain his views on the Vietnam war, broadcast an hour-long special report on the increasingly costly and divisive conflict.

In his summation, McGee, who was one of the first television network "stars" to publicly express doubts about the war, said: "The grand objective -- the building of a free nation [in South Vietnam] -- is not nearer, but further from realization. In short, the war, as the Administration has defined it, is being lost. ... Laying aside all other arguments, the time is at hand when we must decide whether it is futile to destroy Vietnam in the effort to save it" (Don Oberdorfer, "Tet! Turning Point in the Vietnam War" [Johns Hopkins, UP, 1971, 2001], pp. 272-73).

Three and a half weeks later, on April 4, 1968, Dr. King was assassinated at Memphis, Tenn.




"No matter where it leads, no matter what abuses it may bring, I'm gonna tell the truth!!!"


and

Raine
 
 

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Comment by wickedpam on 01/15/2018 14:43:59
Morning

Comment by TriSec on 01/15/2018 14:51:36
Good Morning.

Well...considering that Boston is greater than all other cities represented on this blog, I've been wondering whether I should be touting our connections to Dr. King, or if I should showcase that kerfuffle we had with the molasses tank 99 years ago today.

But I could do both...

Where MLK lived, worked and played in Boston

I drive in front of 397 Mass Ave on the tour, and that often gets 'oohs' and 'ahhs' among a certain subset of visitors.

But look at this -

https://newengland.com/wp-content/uploads/boston-molasses-flood-tank-before.jpg


That's the tank in better days. That horse cart on the left is on Commercial Street, exactly where I drive on tour today.

We simply must have a meetup here in the North End next year for the centennial. What say you all?



Comment by Mondobubba on 01/15/2018 14:52:20
Quote by TriSec:
Good Morning.

Well...considering that Boston is greater than all other cities represented on this blog, I've been wondering whether i should be touting our connections to Dr. King, or if I should showcase that kerfuffle we had with the molasses tank 99 years ago today.

But I could do both...

Where MLK lived, worked and played in Boston

I drive in front of 397 Mass Ave on the tour, and that often gets 'oohs' and 'ahhs' among a certain subset of visitors.

But look at this -

https://newengland.com/wp-content/uploads/boston-molasses-flood-tank-before.jpg


That's the tank in better days. That horse cart on the left is on Commercial Street, exactly where I drive on tour today.

We simply must have a meetup here in the North End next year for the centennial. What say you all?



Hells yas!

Comment by Will in Chicago on 01/15/2018 15:23:06
Good morning, bloggers!!!!

I hope that everyone is well.

I am off today for the holiday. As a teacher in an almost entirely African-American school, I like to think that Dr. King, if he were alive, would still be calling us to pursue racial, economic, and social equality.

On a personal note, I am house sitting for friends who are in the Caribbean. Many AMERICAN citizens still need our help as well as their counterparts in in surrounding nations.



Comment by Mondobubba on 01/15/2018 15:37:02
Raine, given your love of Stevie Wonder, I give Leo Moracchioli's metal cover of "Superstition."




Comment by Raine on 01/15/2018 15:52:44
Quote by Mondobubba:
Raine, given your love of Stevie Wonder, I give Leo Moracchioli's metal cover of "Superstition."



Not too bad, I have to admit. :D

Comment by Mondobubba on 01/15/2018 15:54:20
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Raine, given your love of Stevie Wonder, I give Leo Moracchioli's metal cover of "Superstition."



Not too bad, I have to admit. :D



His cover of "Africa" is both amazing and hilarious. Leo's done hundreds of these covers.



Comment by livingonli on 01/15/2018 16:09:03
Good morning everyone. Yesterday I was really sick. Something must have not agreed with me because I was throwing up a lot and then I slept through the playoff games. I do have to get something to eat soon since my stomach is pretty empty right now.

Comment by TriSec on 01/15/2018 16:11:50
[feather knocks TriSec over}



That's the Storm Trio, Bob and Fran Tyler, and bassist Dave Matayabas (aka Papa TriSec).

All bandmembers still alive and well - and STILL PLAYING.





Comment by Scoopster on 01/15/2018 16:14:52
G'mornin' all!

The new PC is built, but I had to cannibalize the power supply out of old one to do it. Once I get the new power supply I can set the ol' boy up as a temporary streaming rig & work box.

Comment by livingonli on 01/15/2018 16:42:39
Macy's is going to close 7 stores soon putting 5000 people out of work.

Comment by Mondobubba on 01/15/2018 16:45:04
Quote by TriSec:
[feather knocks TriSec over}



That's the Storm Trio, Bob and Fran Tyler, and bassist Dave Matayabas (aka Papa TriSec).

All bandmembers still alive and well - and STILL PLAYING.








Comment by TriSec on 01/15/2018 17:13:03
Well, the Thrombosed Hemorrhoid never fails to disappoint.

Really, did we expect anything less today?



Comment by Scoopster on 01/15/2018 17:25:06
Comment by Mondobubba on 01/15/2018 17:29:44
Quote by TriSec:
Well, the Thrombosed Hemorrhoid never fails to disappoint.

Really, did we expect anything less today?



Yup totally not racist.


Comment by Raine on 01/15/2018 17:34:06
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by TriSec:
Well, the Thrombosed Hemorrhoid never fails to disappoint.

Really, did we expect anything less today?



Yup totally not racist.
He's such a loser.

Signs a proclamation for a day of service I suppose, to him, means servicing his gold golf cart.


Comment by Raine on 01/15/2018 17:34:58
Quote by livingonli:
Macy's is going to close 7 stores soon putting 5000 people out of work.
7 more?

I assume this is the Northeast?


Comment by Raine on 01/15/2018 17:35:49
We are heading to the National Gallery of Art this afternoon.

Comment by Mondobubba on 01/15/2018 17:41:17
Yeah, Cheetolini's totally not racist. Exhibit 1, the Central Park Five?

Would a racist have taken a full page ad out in the NYT saying they were guilty after they were exonerated by DNA evidence and confession from the actual rapist?



Comment by wickedpam on 01/15/2018 17:51:31
Hey Liv - You know Discovery is moving to NY, right.

Comment by livingonli on 01/15/2018 17:55:50
Quote by wickedpam:
Hey Liv - You know Discovery is moving to NY, right.


I heard about that. Might have something to do with the purchase of Scripps-Howard which is based in New York. The only oddity is the BBC America MCR situation. I think it expires at the end of the year although AMC Networks has not yet confirmed if they are taking over master control at the end of 2018 since it would make sense now that they own 51% of it.

Comment by wickedpam on 01/15/2018 18:10:07
Quote by livingonli:
Quote by wickedpam:
Hey Liv - You know Discovery is moving to NY, right.


I heard about that. Might have something to do with the purchase of Scripps-Howard which is based in New York. The only oddity is the BBC America MCR situation. I think it expires at the end of the year although AMC Networks has not yet confirmed if they are taking over master control at the end of 2018 since it would make sense now that they own 51% of it.



They are reporting here that it is because of the merger. Just thought I would float that out there as a place that could be looking for peeps to employ :)

Comment by livingonli on 01/15/2018 18:44:36


For whoever didn't see this Thursday Night.

Comment by TriSec on 01/15/2018 22:50:17
I warn myself against hubris.

"Man makes all kinds of plans, but only Allah's plan will happen."

"Don't count all your chickens before they are hatched."

But nevertheress....with a holiday and no Scout meeting tonight, I've taken a look over Javi's record. This is actually on the horizon.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/04/76/52/0476524e737f76a885cd5d31cbf10e9a.jpg


Comment by Raine on 01/15/2018 23:38:26
Quote by livingonli:


For whoever didn't see this Thursday Night.

I have to say that Seth Myers deserves a LOT more credit for what he does on his show than he's getting. Colbert is amazing -- and Myers is right there with him.