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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/29/opinion/blow-the-most-dangerous-negro.html?_r=0The Most Dangerous Negro
By CHARLES M. BLOW
Published: August 28, 2013
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.s I Have a Dream so disturbed the American power structure that the F.B.I. started spying on him in what The Washington Post called one of its biggest surveillance operations in history. The speech even moved the head of the agencys domestic intelligence division to label King the most dangerous Negro of the future in this nation from the standpoint of Communism, the Negro and national security.
Of course, King wasnt dangerous to the country but to the status quo. King demanded that America answer for her sins, that she be rustled from her waywardness, that she be true to herself and to the promise of her founding.
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Martin Luther King was a preacher, not a politician. He applied pressure from outside the system, not from within it. And Im convinced that both forms of pressure are necessary.
Kings staggering achievement is testament to what can be achieved by a man or woman possessed of clear conviction and rightly positioned on the side of justice and freedom. And it is a testament to the power of people united, physically gathering together so that they must be counted and considered, where they can no longer be ignored or written off.
There is a vacuum in the American body politic waiting to be filled by a young person of vision and courage, one not suckled to sleep by reality television and social media monotony.
The only question is who will that person be. Who will be this generations most dangerous American? The country is waiting.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Volaris
(10,271 posts)are likely why Skittles and Iced Tea BECAME dangerous to people of the wrong mindset, because there are still people who think like Charles M. Blow.
radiclib
(1,811 posts)Glitterati
(3,182 posts)recorded his calls, surveilled everything he did, including his bedroom, and............
somehow missed his assassin?
Right?
reflection
(6,286 posts)I would highly recommend the book "Hellhound On His Trail" by Hampton Sides. A great book that tackles the issue of the government's monitoring of King, as well as charting the lines of MLK and JERs movement leading up to the day of the assassination. Fascinating book.
Glitterati
(3,182 posts)sounds like a great read.
reflection
(6,286 posts)Plus shipping of course.
Glitterati
(3,182 posts)Dang! Google analytics is really screwing with the web today.
Supersedeas
(20,630 posts)Glitterati
(3,182 posts)and they STILL missed the Boston Marathon Bombers.
Why is it that these agencies fail so spectacularly and we can do NOTHING about it?
raccoon
(31,110 posts)Jerry442
(1,265 posts)...when they happen, make those same agencies thrive and grow.
Strange, isn't it.
deutsey
(20,166 posts)When he didn't, I think they decided to help him out.
JustAnotherGen
(31,823 posts)It wasn't a failure of the apparatus - it was a success.
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)think_critically
(118 posts)The governments hate for him really took off in 1967 when he made one of the most courageous and spirited speeches
of the 20th century imo. He essentially laid out in plain terms how our country was on the path to destruction b/c of racism,militarism, and poverty and showed how the Vietnam War was emblematic of this. Check out the speech here
Cha
(297,218 posts)have the same rights as whites. Thank Goodness his Dream lived on in spite of them trying to kill it with him.
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/08/29/rise-and-shine-596/