Martin Luther King Jr. "Why I'm Opposed To Viet Nam War" Part 2 of 3

Martin Luther King Jr. discusses "Why I'm Opposed To Viet Nam War" Part 2 of 3
Internal dissent against dominant American ideologies may be seen as having reached its zenith during the turbulent period when the rising civil rights movement, race riots in Watts, Detroit, Washington DC, Oakland, Wilmington, the 1968 Democratic Convention riots, voter registration riots all over America, racial lynchings and murders including those of Martin Luther King, John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Malcolm X, the freedom movements of the Black Panthers, Anti-War movement, white social unrest and the Free Speech Movement, Farm/Immigrant Workers Movement, Native American Freedom Movement, hippie/free love movement,Gray Panthers and the concepts of All power to the People,- Black power to Black people, Brown power to Brown people, Yellow power to Yellow people, Red power to Red people! and J. Edgar Hoover and the FBIs opposition to these movements saw radical expression bloom and new networks and alliances among these groups take root in the late 1960s. Efforts to control and disrupt such movements used mass and alternative media as part of a broad-based strategy of opposition to social change spearheaded by the federal government, in conjunction with local police and cooperative private media sources. Exploiting divisions between groups seeking common cause proved an effective technique, as Federal Bureau of Investigation COINTELPRO operations built on a history of communication-oriented action to thwart rising movements, in particular the Black Power surge that saw organizations such as the Black Panthers, SNCC, The Weather Underground, and the Nation of Islam achieve dramatic gains in a racially charged environment. This study examines the effort to limit the impact of such voices and considers some of the consequences of that campaign of discourse control. While substantial damage was inflected upon Black power organizations, the movements in which they participated spawned considerable cultural and political ferment, much of it inspired by reaction to official abuses.

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[steelflame1]

He was a leftist socialist, that's why.

[isrealjason]

kinda sounds like M.L.K.jr. was talking about the NWO

[AlexKsak]

What is the date of this speech please?

[7SoulDeep7]

Right on, harrymook! "Oh, our government and the press,generally, won't tell us these things, but, God told me to tell you this morning. The truth must be told" This was a man who was under God for our one nation.

[oldstock1607]

riiiiiiiiiight. And let me guess....9/11 was an "inside job" too?

[oldstock1607]

well, you fail on three points. 1. your pseudo-intellectual act is a sham. what makes you privy to the "truth" about this charlatan?

2. You are spouting wild conspiracy theories about LBJ as if they were truth, yet reject any fact about MLK you find inconvenient or at odds with the christ-like status you have imbued him with, and 3. Get that dead coon dick out of your mouth boy!!!

[oldstock1607]

really? you are capable of guaging the intelligence of people posting here? Fascinating. Have you ever stopped to think that maybe, just MAYBE, you're a victim of the DEIFICATION of this man that's been going on since his "martyrdom." You think it's a coincedence that American school children can identify him IMMEDIATELY by a photo, yet are stumped when shown a portrait of George washington?

Please, world--get of this man's nuts.

[oldstock1607]

and the extramarital affairs? there's actual film of him leaving his mistresses houses, and being shocked by the cameraman waiting for him.

Not a racist, but won't let people paint this MAN out to be a GOD--and that is absolutely the historical trend regarding him.

[oldstock1607]

perhaps some of it--but the plagiarized doctoral dissertation is absolutely unassailable.

He did that.

[oldstock1607]

....Said the man who used church funds to buy prostitutes, engaged in deviant sexual behavior, cross-dressed, had innumerable extramarital affairs and plagiarized his doctoral dissertation.

What a SAINT