Reply #9: The link worked earlier today. Someone took it down. Here is a link [View All]

[McCamy Taylor]

to my old DailyKos journal about labor and immigration called "'You're never strong enough that you don't need help': Why business wants you to fear the Latino" in which I posted the same quote from the same link. It worked earlier today when I was writing this journal. Funny that someone decided to take it down between then and now. Oh well, here are some more red musings to scare the corporate elite.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/11/26/191452/82/160/414770

"In the last year of his life, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, expanded his struggle beyond Civil Rights for African-Americans to economic justice for the world’s poor. You probably do not hear much about this, for a reason. It is a sore topic with this nation’s elite. Much safer to portray King as a man looking out for his own ethnic group. Too much altruism for Native Americans or Hispanics or people from other countries might encourage Americans to become altruistic.

"In a speech given in 1967, King said

http://www.counterpunch.org/...

"A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say, "This is not just." It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of South America and say, "This is not just." The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just."

"He started the "Poor People’s Campaign"."



The above is just some of what I wrote in that DailyKos diary. I guess it is pertinent here, considering that Obama has said he wants to implement Ronald Reagan change and Hillary cites Reagan as one of her favorite presidents, and all I can think of is how wealth disparity started going up up up during the Reagan era and the Federalists started stacking the courts and the CIA conducted Iran-Contra and Contra-Cocaine, addicting American babies to crack in order to support the terrorist murders of innocent brown women and children in countries where we were not even at war. Seems like the last would get an African-American and a woman concerned, doesn't it? Guess I am just being politically naive, and even change Democrats have to kiss conservative GOP ass to get anywhere in this country.

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