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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs there really no thread on the MLK50th speeches?
I came home to watch President Obama's speech and came here, hoping to get an idea what I've been missing all day. Time was when DU would have had a cadre of people following and commenting and discussing such a remarkable, historic event.
What has happened?
For the record, I find the president's speech an interesting combination of honoring, uplifting, admonishing and a little sad. We have gained so much, but there is an air of weariness that I pray can be overcome. As many today have repeated again and again (in the bits I've been able to hear) we need one another. We need to stand together.
gopiscrap
(23,758 posts)posting all day...I took today off to watch this!
nolabear
(41,960 posts)gopiscrap
(23,758 posts)but the tragedy is that the folks who need to hear this the most refuse to listen.
Warpy
(111,254 posts)of Mavis Staples singing "Eyes on the Prize" accompanied by film of why that march had to occur and why that speech had to be made.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)nolabear
(41,960 posts)Trolls I get, what are truthy trolls?
snooper2
(30,151 posts)nolabear
(41,960 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)bigtree
(85,996 posts). . . it's never been easy; here or anywhere else.
nolabear
(41,960 posts)bigtree
(85,996 posts). . . a quiet, but necessarily determined and vigilant reminder.
Peacetrain
(22,875 posts)I have to admit, I got the biggest kick out the fact, Jimmy and Bill will not shake hands.. Poor President has to keep peace between those two also..
Spazito
(50,326 posts)snark responses like 'he does make pretty speeches', comments like that. Why bother starting threads when it just gives the same posters one more opportunity to trash the President. For all too many prolific posters here, the President can do nothing right, nothing.
It is both nauseating and, imo, reflects badly on DU but it is what it is now.
I found the same as you with the President's words, uplifting and admonishing, sad yet hopeful.
malaise
(268,967 posts)Most of us don't care.
Spazito
(50,326 posts)Checking in to DU the last few months has been disheartening, to say the least. It is quite sad, all of it.
I missed having the threads.
So many great speakers today. So much that could have been talked about, reflected on, and just enjoyed.
Guess we can't have one day without all the flaming.
Spazito
(50,326 posts)I keep checking DU to see if it even remotely resembles what brought me to DU in the first place but, alas, not yet so I read, shake my head and move on to other things. I live in hope yet, lol.
MineralMan
(146,288 posts)They're not controversial, though, so they're not of much interest to most DUers. There have been a few threads, but not very active ones. So, I'm just listening.
As President Obama said, we still have a long way to go. We always will, it seems.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Bernie needs to check herself and start with the woman in the mirror and all that. But better speakers than that old hack were inclusive and visionary and the President was very good and he and the First Lady looked supremely Presidential as they always do.
My favorite was John Lewis, but he's always my favorite.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)(paraphrased poorly)
Something about "The inheritors of Dr. King's legacy whining about political gridlock".
It sounded like a shot at Pres. Obama to me. I am going to need to watch that part again.
leftstreet
(36,107 posts)MLK did not 'live and die to hear his heirs whine about political gridlock'
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)That line really felt like a slap in the face. I really was taken back when I heard it.
BumRushDaShow
(128,905 posts)http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/transcript-bill-clintons-speech-on-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-march-on-washington/2013/08/28/e309acdc-0ff9-11e3-8cdd-bcdc09410972_story.html
Of course the part about not "fac(ing) beatings, lynchings, and shootings for our political beliefs anymore" is total bullshit. I think Clinton must have slept through Occupy discord.
The "gridlock" is solely due to the black face holding the highest office in the land who not only took all of their ideas and put a left spin on them, basically took away all of their talking points, and so we have had to suffer through 4 1/2 years of a regressive GOP meltdown - and that includes Clinton's head-explosion as well as he hasn't forgiven this President his wife's loss. Anyone on DU who keeps insisting that Obama is a DLCer need only look at how the REAL "DLC", "Third Way", etc., reacts to him.
JI7
(89,248 posts)was disappointed not to see much on it but then not really surprised.